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<blockquote data-quote="mnmr" data-source="post: 1074670" data-attributes="member: 86308">Overall, I'm with Tony on this one, but do have a few remarks:Working with a DateTime without knowing the associated time zone is much like reading a text file without knowing the encoding (you could get garbage or you could get the correct data, but you wouldn't know which one it was). Therefore, if you are parsing the date from a string, this either needs to include time zone information or you have to obtain the information elsewhere (e.g. configuration option for a particular EPG provider).If you store the result of the parse operation in a DateTime, you need to know which time zone it is in. If you store the result in a DateTimeOffset, the time zone information will be preserved. I personally prefer to unify everything to UTC, because then you only need to consider time zone conversions when the DateTime &quot;leaves your subsystem&quot;, such as when it is stored in a database or passed along to some other component not under your control.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mnmr, post: 1074670, member: 86308"] Overall, I'm with Tony on this one, but do have a few remarks: Working with a DateTime without knowing the associated time zone is much like reading a text file without knowing the encoding (you could get garbage or you could get the correct data, but you wouldn't know which one it was). Therefore, if you are parsing the date from a string, this either needs to include time zone information or you have to obtain the information elsewhere (e.g. configuration option for a particular EPG provider). If you store the result of the parse operation in a DateTime, you need to know which time zone it is in. If you store the result in a DateTimeOffset, the time zone information will be preserved. I personally prefer to unify everything to UTC, because then you only need to consider time zone conversions when the DateTime "leaves your subsystem", such as when it is stored in a database or passed along to some other component not under your control. [/QUOTE]

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