Time offset value of a datetime is missing in Azure Web API application

Question

I have a wep api hosted in Azure which is .NET Core. It is a simple CRUD api for now. I have an interesting problem that I could not find or understand the reason.

In my api, there is a DateTime property as usual. When I post a data to api, the time offset disappears in server side.

"dateTime":"2016-08-29T05:13:21.931+03:00" the +03:00 turns into 00:00

Can anyone explain the reason and the solution?

{
   "content":"Test Data",
   "location":{
      "name":"Some Location",
      "address":"",
      "latitude":41.0920448,
      "longitude":28.9444847
   },
   "owner":{
      "userName":"Some User",
      "name":null,
      "registrationType":0,
      "profilePictureURL":null
   },
   "dateTime":"2016-08-29T05:13:21.931+03:00",
   "createTime":"2016-08-29T05:13:21.7791051+00:00",
   "rankingPoint":0.0
}

Answer 1

1.First of all your azure service is runnig on 00:00 Timezone.

2. if you look at DateTime structure it has special property called Kind. During serialization/deserialization this property take into consideration.

   DateTime dt = DateTime.Now; // dt.Kind ( Local , Utc etc).

   The way serialization works it look this property at server side Json Serialziation setting. This option is also no help.

3. Simple and Best Solution I found is to use DateTimeOffset instead of DateTime.