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wholroyd/DateTime_parsing.cs

Created May 27, 2016 04:15
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Keep the timezone as an offset and not an adjustment
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DateTime_parsing.cs
var test = "2016-11-21T23:00:00-05:00";
var temp1 = DateTime.Parse(test);
temp1.Dump(); // Returns: 11/22/2016 4:00:00 AM
var temp2 = DateTimeOffset.Parse(test);
temp2.Dump(); // Returns: 11/21/2016 11:00:00 PM -05:00
var temp3 = DateTimeOffset.Parse(test).DateTime;
temp3.Dump(); // Returns: 11/21/2016 11:00:00 PM
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