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

Could you try something like this post suggests and make a new string property and XmlIgnore the existing one:

Put [XmlIgnore] on the Time property.

Then add a new property:

[XmlElement(DataType="string",ElementName="Time")]
public String TimeString
{
   get { return this.timeField.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"); }
   set { this.timeField = DateTime.ParseExact(value, "yyyy-MM-dd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); }
}