Edited Issue: Date Format changes when posting data to web api controller in ASP.NET MVC 4 [578]

The problem is described in detail at

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12954961/date-format-changes-when-posting-data-to-web-api-controller-in-asp-net-mvc-4

and

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13006807/date-format-changes-to-mm-dd-yyyy-when-posting-data-to-web-api-method