DateTime Kind support in Settings

[rasmuschristensen]

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Which plugin does this impact:

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  Bug

I persist the the datetime of HttpHeader Last-Modified from a httpclient request. I get the DateTime from the Response content, with a DateTime Kind of type Unspecified. As far as I can tell this should be ok. The issue is that the Settings plugin converts this to UTC. When I then use the date in a later request, with If-Modified-Since, I now have a DateTime with Kind UTC and incorrect time. I won't do a ToLocal... as I might have moved location. I went into the source of settings and can see how you convert it to UTC, so it explains I don't keep the unspecified, but that means the Settings plugin mutates my data?

A bug or a question :), shouldn't the plugin support DateTimer Kind?

Best regards

Version Number of Plugin: 2.1.0 Device Tested On: IOS 9.3.2 Simulator Tested On:

Expected Behavior

Don't change the datatime

Actual Behavior

converts to UTC

Steps to reproduce the Behavior

Persist a DateTime with DateTimeKind Unspecified

Feature Request:

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[jamesmontemagno]

This comes from: https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/Xamarin.Plugins/pull/107 and is as designed.

You could save things as ticks and save your own kind out to re-import.

[rasmuschristensen]

Hi @jamesmontemagno Thanks, makes sense.