[Mono-dev] Remoting with DateTime

Paolo Molaro lupus at ximian.com
Fri Aug 17 03:50:04 EDT 2007


On 08/15/07 Robert Jordan wrote:
> This is part of the binary serialization formatter's undocumented
> specification: DateTime is treated as a primitive type and only
> its ticks are serialized.
> 
> It looks like the format has changed with 2.0, so someone would
> have to reverse engineer this part again.

There was a blog at msdn I think some time ago: they encode the kind
in a couple of bits of the ticks 64 bit value (I guess they are the low
bits, losing a tiny bit of precision in the stored value).

lupus

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