How can I deserialize Datetime json with correct timezone c#

Question

My application consumes the APIs, one of the API returns the Datetime value with unix time format

ex: user.DateOfBirth = "/Date(476197200000+1100)/" 

The deserialize process is working well (deserialize<User> object) but when I display the datetime to GUI.

the UI displays this date as 2/Feb/1985 My expected is: 3/Feb/1985

My local environment displays correctly, it's 3/Feb/1985, but on UAT environment, it display less than 1 day (2/Feb/1985)

I'm using Newtonsoft.Json v10.x.x

Answer 1

Not sure how you are deserializing but you might want to look into how to parse using specific time zone.

You can try this.

microsoftDateFormatSettings = 
new { DateFormatHandling = DateFormatHandling.MicrosoftDateFormat,
 DateTimeZoneHandling = DateTimeZoneHandling.Local};
var items = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<lstObject>>.
(jsonString, microsoftDateFormatSettings);

• QuachNguyen: Hello Rushikesh Vyas Thanks for your reply, yes, I have been serializing as your above suggestion, I also add ateTimeZoneHandling.Local but not success My Json is: "DateOfBirth":"\/Date(784731600000+1100)\/" My Customer has: [Description("The contacts date of birth.")] [DataMember(IsRequired = false)] public DateTime? DateOfBirth { get; set; } Could you help me in this case? Thank you
• Rush: Can you show the snippet of your code?that’d be a great help.
• QuachNguyen: It's exactly the same like you, the difference is using <T> object instead of List<object>, and microsoftDateFormatSettings change to your suggestion above Thank you
• Rush: So do you see the correct value when you deserialize and UI control is showing wrong date? Or when you deserialize json you are getting incorrect information