DateTime Serialization 1

[MadJock]

Hi All,

Hopefully someone can provide some help with this!

I am calling a web API (not a asmx web services - I'm ussing the HttpRequest classes) and the response returns some XML.

The API belongs to a 3rd party in Holland.

I've created classes that 'map' to the XML using an XSD file provided by the thrid party. My problem is when dates are returned to me.

Looking at the XML returned a time looks like this: 00:00:00+02:00

When I deserialize this (using standard .Net deserialization), the time in my class looks like:
23:00:00

If I examine the DateTime in the debug inspector, the DateTimeKind is 'Local' - I think I want UTC, but not sure if I'm correct here or how to achieve it!

Any help / pointers / samples would be greatly appreciated!

I'm using .Net 2.0 - if anyone needs the code, please let me know.

Thanks,

Graeme


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[jmeckley]

so what exactly is the problem?
xml stores dates as universal time. unless 00:00:00+02:00
is not 23:00:00 (11pm) everything is working properly. how the datetime is displayed is irrelvant.



Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[MadJock]

Hi jmeckley, thanks for the response.

The issue is, the API call I'm making is of the 'GetTemplate' type. It gives me a basic object that I then go through and add values to before resubmitting to the API.

When it goes back to the API, the server there is in a different timezone (CET). That's why I need to keep the 00:00:00+2

Thanks,

Graeme


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[jmeckley]

how the date is displayed in the debugger doesn't effect the actual time. if you want to confirm the time in the debugger is correct

System.Diagonostics.Debug.Write("Local {0} is UTC {1}", DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime());

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[MadJock]

Right you are - my bad

Thanks for your help.

"Just beacuse you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you

 

[chiph]

Looking at the XML returned a time looks like this: 00:00:00+02:00

Sounds like someone actually read the W3C XML spec.


Dates in XML use ISO-8601 format:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Use the XmlConvert class to turn them into a DateTime.

Chip H.


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