title: Safe way to pass a date param to an ajax call to a MVC action
body: <p>I have a MVC action that takes one of its parameters a <code>DateTime</code> and if I pass "17/07/2012" it throws an exception saying that the param is null but cannot have a null value but if I pass <code>01/07/2012</code> it is parsed as <code>Jan 07 2012</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I'm passing the dates to the ajax call in <code>DD/MM/YYYY</code> format, should I rely on <code>MM/DD/YYYY</code> format despite the configured culture in <code>web.config</code>?</p>
  
  <p>This is a simple method and there is just this one date parameter.</p>