XmlConvert.ToDateTime question

Shawn Anderson

I have a question and I think I know the answer, but I am looking for
confirmation (and maybe a link to some documentation)

I have an input string of:
"2004-08-01T00:00:00-00:00"

When I pass this to XmlConvert.ToDateTime I get a result of
"7/31/2004 8:00:00 PM"

Can anyone clarify why the result is one day in the past? By thought is
because of the "-00:00" in the input string, but I am not sure why this is
the cause.

Thanks
Shawn

Nov 12 '05 #1

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Dare Obasanjo [MSFT]

The DateTime class in the .NET Framework has no way of storing time zone
information. This means the DateTime instances returned by the
XmlConvert.ToDateTime methods are relative to your local time. So
"2004-08-01T00:00:00-00:00" is equivalent to "7/31/2004 8:00:00 PM" in your
local time.

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I have a question and I think I know the answer, but I am looking for
confirmation (and maybe a link to some documentation)

I have an input string of:
"2004-08-01T00:00:00-00:00"

When I pass this to XmlConvert.ToDateTime I get a result of
"7/31/2004 8:00:00 PM"

Can anyone clarify why the result is one day in the past? By thought is
because of the "-00:00" in the input string, but I am not sure why this is
the cause.

Thanks
Shawn

Nov 12 '05 #2

Dare Obasanjo [MSFT]

I have a question and I think I know the answer, but I am looking for
confirmation (and maybe a link to some documentation)

I have an input string of:
"2004-08-01T00:00:00-00:00"

When I pass this to XmlConvert.ToDateTime I get a result of
"7/31/2004 8:00:00 PM"

Can anyone clarify why the result is one day in the past? By thought is
because of the "-00:00" in the input string, but I am not sure why this is
the cause.

Thanks
Shawn

Nov 12 '05 #3

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