7. DateTime format

Umbraco returns property values as string. Also date-time values. When having string properties representing date-time values and you want to convert these value into strong typed properties of type DateTime you can specify a DateTimeFormat attribute in which you specify the format to be used for the conversion. Example:

    [DateTimeFormat("d/M/yyyy HH:mm")]
    public DateTime DateTimeProperty { get; set; }

If the property is a generated property, you cannot simply add an extra attribute to that property because that would require you to change a generated class. In such a case you can specify a meta-data-class using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations. Example:

[MetadataType(typeof(ExampleModelMetaData))]
public partial class ExampleModel
{
}

public class ExampleModelMetaData
{
    [DateTimeFormat("d/M/yyyy HH:mm")]
    public DateTime DateTimeProperty { get; set; }
}

Excluding properties