Why can DateTime.MinValue not be serialized in timezones ahead of UTC?

Question

I am experiencing issues with a WCF REST service. The wire object that I try to return has certain properties not set, resulting in DateTime.MinValue for properties of type

Answer 1

using this constructor:

public DataContractJsonSerializer(Type type, IEnumerable knownTypes, int maxItemsInObjectGraph, bool ignoreExtensionDataObject, IDataContractSurrogate dataContractSurrogate, bool alwaysEmitTypeInformation)

example code:

DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(o.GetType(), null, int.MaxValue, false, new DateTimeSurrogate(), false);

 public class DateTimeSurrogate : IDataContractSurrogate
    {

        #region IDataContractSurrogate 成员

        public object GetCustomDataToExport(Type clrType, Type dataContractType)
        {
            return null;
        }

        public object GetCustomDataToExport(System.Reflection.MemberInfo memberInfo, Type dataContractType)
        {
            return null;
        }

        public Type GetDataContractType(Type type)
        {
            return type;
        }

        public object GetDeserializedObject(object obj, Type targetType)
        {
                   return obj;
        }

        public void GetKnownCustomDataTypes(System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection customDataTypes)
        {

        }

        public object GetObjectToSerialize(object obj, Type targetType)
        {
            if (obj.GetType() == typeof(DateTime))
            {
                DateTime dt = (DateTime)obj;
                if (dt == DateTime.MinValue)
                {
                    dt = DateTime.MinValue.ToUniversalTime();
                    return dt;
                }
                return dt;
            }
            if (obj == null)
            {
                return null;
            }
            var q = from p in obj.GetType().GetProperties()
                    where (p.PropertyType == typeof(DateTime)) && (DateTime)p.GetValue(obj, null) == DateTime.MinValue
                    select p;
            q.ToList().ForEach(p =>
            {
                p.SetValue(obj, DateTime.MinValue.ToUniversalTime(), null);
            });
            return obj;
        }

        public Type GetReferencedTypeOnImport(string typeName, string typeNamespace, object customData)
        {
            return null;
        }

        public System.CodeDom.CodeTypeDeclaration ProcessImportedType(System.CodeDom.CodeTypeDeclaration typeDeclaration, System.CodeDom.CodeCompileUnit compileUnit)
        {
            return typeDeclaration;
        }

        #endregion
    }