How to preserve timezone when deserializing DateTime using JSON.NET? [duplicate]

Answer 1

I would use DateTimeOffset for this instead. DateTime doesn't have any useful time zone information associated with it.

You can deserialize to DateTimeOffset instead by changing serializer.DateParseHandling:

JsonSerializer serializer = new JsonSerializer();
serializer.DateParseHandling = DateParseHandling.DateTimeOffset;

JObject data = serializer.Deserialize<JObject>(reader);

var offset = (DateTimeOffset)data["theTime"];

Console.WriteLine(offset.Offset);    // -5:00:00
Console.WriteLine(offset.DateTime);  // 11/20/2014 7:15:11 AM

Example: https://dotnetfiddle.net/I9UAuC