Get DateTime as UTC with Dapper

Question

I\'m using Dapper to map my entities to SQL Server CE. If I save a DateTime with Kind=Utc, when I read it back I get a DateTime with <

Answer 1

Just wanted to put my full solution here for seamlessly integrating DateTimeOffset / DateTimeOffset? fields/properties with a MySQL 5.7 database (which doesn't support DbType.DateTimeOffset) - based on @matt-jenkins answer above:

public static class DapperExtensions
{
    class DateTimeOffsetTypeHandler : SqlMapper.TypeHandler
    {
        public override void SetValue(IDbDataParameter parameter, DateTimeOffset value)
        {
            switch (parameter.DbType)
            {
                case DbType.DateTime:
                case DbType.DateTime2:
                case DbType.AnsiString: // Seems to be some MySQL type mapping here
                    parameter.Value = value.UtcDateTime;
                    break;
                case DbType.DateTimeOffset:
                    parameter.Value = value;
                    break;
                default:
                    throw new InvalidOperationException("DateTimeOffset must be assigned to a DbType.DateTime SQL field.");
            }
        }

        public override DateTimeOffset Parse(object value)
        {
            switch (value)
            {
                case DateTime time:
                    return new DateTimeOffset(DateTime.SpecifyKind(time, DateTimeKind.Utc), TimeSpan.Zero);
                case DateTimeOffset dto:
                    return dto;
                default:
                    throw new InvalidOperationException("Must be DateTime or DateTimeOffset object to be mapped.");
            }
        }
    }


    private static int DateTimeOffsetMapperInstalled = 0;

    public static void InstallDateTimeOffsetMapper()
    {
        // Assumes SqlMapper.ResetTypeHandlers() is never called.
        if (Interlocked.CompareExchange(ref DateTimeOffsetMapperInstalled, 1, 0) == 0)
        {
            // First remove the default type map between typeof(DateTimeOffset) => DbType.DateTimeOffset (not valid for MySQL)
            SqlMapper.RemoveTypeMap(typeof(DateTimeOffset));
            SqlMapper.RemoveTypeMap(typeof(DateTimeOffset?));

            // This handles nullable value types automatically e.g. DateTimeOffset?
            SqlMapper.AddTypeHandler(typeof(DateTimeOffset), new DateTimeOffsetTypeHandler());
        }
    }
}