Best practices for DateTime serialization in .NET 3.5

Question

Some 4 years back, I followed this MSDN article for DateTime usage best practices for building a .Net client on .Net 1.1 and ASMX web services (with SQL 2000 server as the b

Answer 1

UTC/GMT would be consistent in distributed environment.

One important thing is that specify the datetimeKind after populating your DateTime property with the value from database.

dateTimeValueUtcKind = DateTime.SpecifyKind(dateTimeValue, DateTimeKind.Utc);

See MSDN