Question

I’m saving datetime in t-sql db as UTC and not local time i.e after saving, it loses that it is UTC date ex: 2011-11-08 00:00:00.000. While reading from db in C#, it’s read as local time and not UTC. ex: after reading the dateTime value, a dateTime.ToUniversalTime() gives a different value.

How do I read the db datetime value as UTC and not local time? Or I should saved in local time in t-sql?

Answer 1

Okay, if you’re getting a DateTime with a Kind of Unspecified, you can just use:

DateTime utc = DateTime.SpecifyKind(unspecified, DateTimeKind.Utc);

This sort of problem is just one of the reasons I dislike DateTime.