I'v been struggling for quite a while with the way jqgrid posts dates back to the server after an edit or add.

I finally found a solution and gladly share it with you. So, this is not a question for help.

I'm testing a ASP.NET MVC4 WEB API, with a simple model, controller and a single page view with json-trafic. I use the nl-BE culture that has a comma as a decimal separator, a dot as a thousands indicator and a european “dd/mm/yyyy” date format.

Filling and displaying the jqgrid was clear and easy. Problem was editing or adding rows. In the standard configuration jqgrid posts dates as they are formatted on screen. The server-side ASP.NET-deserializer