Re: PST Timezone in .NET 2.0

The .NET System.DateTime.Parse method and Convert.ToDateTime method seem not 
understanding all obs-zone defined in Section 4.3 of RFC 2822 except "GMT" 
and "Z".

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-4.3

Tested with the following code:

class TimeConvert {
	private static void Main() {
		System.Console.Write("Please enter a time string: ");
		string strDateTime=System.Console.ReadLine();
		System.DateTime dateTime;
		try {
			dateTime=System.DateTime.Parse(strDateTime);
		}
		catch(System.FormatException) {
			System.Console.WriteLine("Invalid format.");
			return;
		}
		System.DateTime univDateTime=dateTime.ToUniversalTime();
		System.Console.WriteLine(univDateTime+" UTC");
	}
}

-Franklin

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From: "James Holderness" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, 07 December, 2007 10:20
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [rss-public] PST Timezone in .NET 2.0

> Sam Ruby wrote:
>> I imagine that James might be in a better position than me, as I believe
>> that he has accrued a set of technical legal but in practice very
>> problematic examples of RFC [2]822 formatted dates.
>
> Back when I tested dates, there were a couple of aggregators that didn't
> understand U.S. timezones (not just PST though). RssReader (which I 
> believe
> uses .NET) was one of those affected. However, not all .NET aggregators 
> were
> affected (RSS Bandit, for example, was fine).
>
> Regards
> James
> 



 
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