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

For cases where the datetime object should simply stay the same use JsonConvert:

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(now);
DateTime nowJson = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);