Problem deserializating JSON Date in C# - adding 2 hours

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viniciushana picture viniciushana · Nov 29, 2010 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

We are having such a nasty problem when deserializating a JSON date to a C# DateTime.

The code is:

JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
jsonTrechos = jsonTrechos.Replace("/Date(", "\\/Date(").Replace(")/", ")\\/");
Trecho[] model = serializer.Deserialize<Trecho[]>(jsonTrechos);

The jsonTrechos is a string of json2.js's JSON.stringify();.

Problem is: the deserialization works, bur all dates of the Trechos objects are added with 2 hours.

My timezone is Brazil (UTC -3) and we're under daylight savings (so we're currently on UTC -2), if it has anything to do. I guess that perhaps localization and timezones may be playing a part on this and if they really are, I have no idea on how to fix it.

Answer

Razzie picture Razzie · Nov 29, 2010

This is documented in the MSDN:

Date object, represented in JSON as "/Date(number of ticks)/". The number of ticks is a positive or negative long value that indicates the number of ticks (milliseconds) that have elapsed since midnight 01 January, 1970 UTC.

Try calling DateTime.ToLocalTime() and see if you get the correct date for you.

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