DateTime is less 8 hours after serializing & deserializing

[lamy]

i have a page that sends to a webapi via WebClient which has a DateTime value as one of the parameter, for some reason after serializing it with JavaScriptSerializer it takes -8 out of the value

 

here's what i tested in C#

 

public class MyParam
{
public string param1 { get; set; }
public DateTime param2 { get; set; }
}

 

JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
string json = serializer.Serialize(param); // param = MyParam
json = serializer.Serialize(json);

MyParam test = serializer.Deserialize<MyParam>(json); // less 8 hours of original value

[PlausiblyDamp]

It looks like it is failing to handle timezone offsets correctly, in all honesty I don't use JavaScriptSerializer myself as I have found several issues with it. http://james.newtonking.com/json is a far better library for handling this kind of thing (even Micorsoft use it in preference to their own code in the MVC framework). In fact you can install it directly with Nuget (just search for json.net) if you prefer an easy life.

[lamy]

It looks like it is failing to handle timezone offsets correctly, in all honesty I don't use JavaScriptSerializer myself as I have found several issues with it. http://james.newtonking.com/json is a far better library for handling this kind of thing (even Micorsoft use it in preference to their own code in the MVC framework). In fact you can install it directly with Nuget (just search for json.net) if you prefer an easy life.

 

thanks :)