[Mono-list] Patch for DataTime.cs

[Elan Feingold]

A few things: 

- FileTime is expressed in Universal time, and as such must be converted
before subtracting the magic offset (patch 1)

- Strings in the format "2003-02-27T10:05:03-11:00" (note the timezone
at the end) *must* be parsed by DateTime.Parse() for compatibility with
Microsoft. This came up in my work with XML [de]serialization, which
I'll send a patch for shortly (patch 1)

- The date time format patterns didn't match MS output (patch 2)

I've been running my test program (also included) on XP and Linux to get
them to match.

Also, a question. Whenever I run any .NET program under Mono, always I
get three characters of garbage printed at the start "" (not sure if
these will show up in email). Any ideas?

Best regards,

-elan

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using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;

public class MainClass
{
    static void Main ()
    {
        String date = "2003-02-27T10:05:03-11:00";

        string format = "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:sszzzzzz";
        DateTime newNow = DateTime.ParseExact(date, format, null);

        Console.WriteLine("*** ParseExact ***");
        Console.WriteLine("Date.Exact: [{0}]", newNow.ToString());
        Console.WriteLine("ToFileTime: [{0}]", newNow.ToFileTime());
        Console.WriteLine("Ticks:      [{0}]", newNow.Ticks);

        Console.WriteLine("FromFileTime: [{0}]", 
                          DateTime.FromFileTime(newNow.ToFileTime()).ToString());

        Console.WriteLine("\n*** Parse ***");
        newNow = DateTime.Parse(date);
        Console.WriteLine("Date.Parse: [{0}]", newNow.ToString());
        Console.WriteLine("ToFileTime: [{0}]", newNow.ToFileTime());
        Console.WriteLine("Ticks:      [{0}]", newNow.Ticks);

        Console.WriteLine("FromFileTime: [{0}]", 
                          DateTime.FromFileTime(newNow.ToFileTime()).ToString());
        
    }
}

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