DateTime vs DateTimeOffset

Question

Currently, we have a standard way of dealing with .NET DateTime\'s in a TimeZone aware way: Whenever we produce a DateTime we do it in UTC (e.g. us

Answer 1

TLDR if you don't want to read all these great answers :-)

Explicit:

Using DateTimeOffset because the timezone is forced to UTC+0.

Implicit:

Using DateTime where you hope everyone sticks to the unwritten rule of the timezone always being UTC+0.

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(Side note for devs: explicit is always better than implicit!)

(Side side note for Java devs, C# DateTimeOffset == Java OffsetDateTime, read this: https://www.baeldung.com/java-zoneddatetime-offsetdatetime)