Prevent timezone conversion on deserialization of DateTime value

Question

I have a class that I serialize/deserialize using XmlSerializer. This class contains a DateTime field.

When serialized, the DateTime

Answer 1

Instead of parsing as a DateTime you can parse it as a DateTimeOffset and use the DateTimeOffset.DateTime property to ignore the timezone. Like this:

[XmlIgnore()]
public DateTime Time { get; set; }

[XmlElement(ElementName = "Time")]
public string XmlTime
{
    get { return XmlConvert.ToString(Time, XmlDateTimeSerializationMode.RoundtripKind); }
    set { Time = DateTimeOffset.Parse(value).DateTime; }
}