title: How to Convert to DateTime on HTML.Textbox?
body: <p>I have a textbox that should accept datetime formats only.  I am not sure how to convert this in MVC.  I also want to know how to rearrange to a "yyyyMMdd" format, which is what needs to be passed.  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%=Html.TextBox("effectiveDate") %&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My controller has nothing :X</p>
  
  <pre><code>public ActionResult Index()
  {
       return View();
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know I am missing something... what is it?</p>
  
  <p>I am not worried about entering a bad date right now... I just want to get the conversion concept.  </p>