Date formattingin MVC5/razor

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DateTime

Here's the problem:

a date formatted in Configuration.cs as this:

EventStartDateTime=DateTime.Parse("2/16/2008 12:15:12 PM")

then showing in the Db table as this:

2008-02-16 12:15:12.000

and when coming into the Index.cshtml here:


@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.EventStartDateTime)


at the break, the hover over shows this:

item.EventStartDateTime.Date {2/16/2011 12:00:00 AM}

but the page crashes and gives this error message:

"
Exception Details: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
"

????

what is going on here?

What I have tried:

i tried stringing it as:


@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.EventStartDateTime.ToLongDateString())


but i get this error msg, which i do not understand at all.

"Templates can be used only with field access, property access, single-dimension array index, or single-parameter custom indexer expressions."

also, when i tested the date string in the MS sample console project, it worked as expected, which left me totally confounded.

is the error in something Razor wants, or ???