Hi All,

 I want to consume a webservice which expects the datetime in following format.

<SDate>2009-10-02T00:00:00.0000000-08:00</SDate>

 
To achieve this I am passing the UniversalDateTime by using "sDate.ToUniversalTime()"

I serialized the ws request object and its showing the datetime like this

<SDate>2009-10-02T08:00:00Z</SDate> 

 
Is this correct? Or how can I convert my datetime as per the webservice specification


Thanks in advance

You can try the "Round-Trip" format:

DateTime.Now.ToString("O");

 
Thanks for your reply Wellens,  Your solution is working fine with current date and time

my scenario is

The web application server is located in Chicago and am calling this webservice located in Los Angeles (PST) .

So how can I manually create a DateTime with the specified format. (-8) ?

for eg  convert "10-02-2009" to  "2009-10-02T00:00:00.0000000-08:00"

If you are only using 10-02-2009 and do not care about the time zone, this should work:

DateTime MyDate = DateTime.ParseExact("10-02-2009", "MM-dd-yyyy", null);
MyDate = DateTime.SpecifyKind(MyDate, DateTimeKind.Local);
String Test = MyDate.ToString("O");

 

 

 Timezone is the issue - As I mentioned in my previous post, my web application will get the "CST" time if I am using DateTimeKind.Local but I need to pass "PST" instead

Dil:

Timezone is the issue

Really?  Because in your example you have a date with no time.  If you are using .Net 3.5 you can do something like:

DateTime oldTime = new DateTime(2007, 6, 23, 10, 0, 0);
TimeZoneInfo timeZone1 = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Mountain Standard Time");
TimeZoneInfo timeZone2 = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Central Standard Time");
DateTime newTime = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTime(oldTime, timeZone1, timeZone2);

Otherwise it's more difficult with Daylight Savings time being the monkeywrench in the works. 

 

Thanks