The UTC time represented when the offset is applied must be between year 0 and 10,000. Parameter name: offset

Question

I have the following code in an ASP.NET MVC3 Controller:

public PartialViewResult GetCalendar(int? month, int? year)
    {
        var test = new DateTime((y         


        

Answer 1

I just had this issue, introduced by the part of my team that's on a negative UTC zone...

What chamila_c posted is the real reason why this happens, but I needed a quick fix.

To "solve it" I basically created this extension:

public static class DateTimeExtensions
{
    public static DateTimeOffset ToDateTimeOffset(this DateTime dateTime)
    {
        return dateTime.ToUniversalTime() <= DateTimeOffset.MinValue.UtcDateTime
                   ? DateTimeOffset.MinValue 
                   : new DateTimeOffset(dateTime);
    }
}

you might also want to check against the MaxValue.