When Would You Prefer DateTime Over DateTimeOffset

Question

A few months ago I was introduced to the new DateTimeOffset type and was glad DateTime\'s flaws with regard to time zones were finally taken care of.

However, I was

Answer 1

Whilst I wouldn't PREFER to use DateTime over DateTimeOffset, please note that sometimes you NEED to, as MS .Net does not support DateTimeOffset as a DataColumn.DataType property DataColumn.DataType Property even though SQL datetimeoffset has been around since SQL2008.

I myself had a problem with reading (ReadXml) a DateTimeOffset value of an XML exported DataSet with XmlReadMode.InferTypedSchema; it read it as a DateTime and crashed when I tried to merge it into a DateTimeOffset column