Unexpected result using DateTime.ParseE xact

[Peter Holschbach]

Hi,

I've the following line of code:

result = DateTime.ParseE xact("1999-12-01T23:59:59Z", "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ",
CultureInfo.Inv ariantCulture);

where I get in result "result" "02.12.1999 00:59:59" instead of teh
expected "01.12.1999 23:59:59"
Anybody a idea ?

Thanx Peter

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Hi Stephany,

It is now 19:00 in the Netherlands which is as I wrote in CET and that is
one hour later then in England where it is 18:00.

(It is however earlier 12:00 here then in England, because CET is 1 hour
before GMT, that is probably your confusion, however I wrote nowhere that
CET is behind GMT/UTC/ZULU/Zero time/Military).

BBC 1 and 2 are standard television stations here and I can assure you that
I don't have to think when they are talking about the time and that is
forever because in the EU is the summertime (what is in the US timesaving
time) synchronized for every timetable.

Cor

[Peter Holschbach]

Hi All,

thank you very much for all the answers (really a interesting thread and
helpful !!!).
Someone asked why to hell I didn't want to have the right result :-)

1) I have to support a application which stores the time informatin wrong
(ends with Zulu but local time is stored)
2) looking into the help for DateTime.Format Exact I could not find why the
function behaves as it does.

I asked the same question in the german NG and got an answer with many links
concerning this problem.
Maybe they are helpfule for you too. Here they are:

<http://msdn2.microsoft .com/en-us/library/91hfhz89.aspx>
<http://msdn2.microsoft .com/en-us/netframework/aa569606.aspx>
<http://msdn2.microsoft .com/en-us/library/ms973825.aspx>
<http://msdn2.microsoft .com/en-us/library/2h3syy57.aspx>
<http://msdn2.microsoft .com/en-us/library/5hh873ya.aspx>
<http://msdn2.microsoft .com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx>

<http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2004/12/20/327702.aspx>

<URL:http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archiv...ony-moore.aspx
<http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2007/06/18/a-brief-history-of-datetime-anthony-moore.aspx>>
<URL:http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archiv...ony-moore.aspx
<http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2007/07/12/a-brief-history-of-datetime-follow-up-anthony-moore.aspx>>

Peter
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Hi Stephany,

It is now 19:00 in the Netherlands which is as I wrote in CET and that is
one hour later then in England where it is 18:00.

(It is however earlier 12:00 here then in England, because CET is 1 hour
before GMT, that is probably your confusion, however I wrote nowhere that
CET is behind GMT/UTC/ZULU/Zero time/Military).

BBC 1 and 2 are standard television stations here and I can assure you
that I don't have to think when they are talking about the time and that
is forever because in the EU is the summertime (what is in the US
timesaving time) synchronized for every timetable.

Cor