Re: [Mono-dev] DateTime Serialization
My bad, I forgot Kind was stored with the data even if zone was not. Still, I think a good practice to always store/pass zulu and display local. -- View this message in context: http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/DateTime-Serialization-tp3093883p3094583.html Sent from the Mono - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
[Mono-dev] DateTime Serialization
Hi, while trying to access a Mono WCF service with a MS.NET client I encountered issues with DateTime (de)serialization: it seems mono serializes only the ticks and not the DateTimeKind info (UTC, Local, Unspecified). See bug 660424 for description and proposed fixed. (I posted it as WCF bug initially but now I think it's rather System.XML) A word of caution: the proposed fix is not tested, just from looking at the code. (I can't build the mono class libs on my windows machine yet) Maybe bug 648252 is related to this one as well. Cheers, Karsten ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
Re: [Mono-dev] DateTime Serialization
Just a thought - if using WCF, the client and server could be in different zones so why would you want anything other than UTC time to be passed around in the first place which is always what should be stored and only converted when displayed using the local conventions. The zone is not part of the datetime data but rather the machine. Dave -- View this message in context: http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/DateTime-Serialization-tp3093883p3093925.html Sent from the Mono - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
Re: [Mono-dev] DateTime Serialization
Well, date and time information can sure be locale independent, but NET's DateTime values aren't. It also contains DateTimeKind flag and ToBinary() adds that information within the 64 bit return value in addition to UTC time ticks. So, Karsten is right and that is indeed a good point. I'll visit bug #660424 tomorrow. Atsushi Eno (2010/12/19 4:19), CodeSlinger wrote: Just a thought - if using WCF, the client and server could be in different zones so why would you want anything other than UTC time to be passed around in the first place which is always what should be stored and only converted when displayed using the local conventions. The zone is not part of the datetime data but rather the machine. Dave ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
