title: ASP.NET MVC DateTime manual input conversion best practice
body: <p>I have ASP.NET MVC site with ordinary Html Form with text field to put Date in. </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input type="textbox" name="date"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Controller method looks like: </p>
  
  <pre><code>void DoSomething(DateTime date)
  {
   ....
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As users have different locales and habits how to enter date how shall I handle DateTime formats? I guess there should be code that try to parse string to several date time formats. Can I handle all DateTime(s) params centralized without Helper class call every time controller expects DateTime ? How can I take into account user locale ? </p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance! </p>