Gmt php or UTC C# equivalence through SOAP

Question

is C# DateTime.UtcNow and php date("c") are equivalent

I doubt because when I soap both I get from

C# :

<dateDebutAction xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">2012-03-20T16:01:28.3954818Z</dateDebutAction>

and from
PHP :

<dateDebutAction xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">2012-03-20T16:04:29+00:00</dateDebutAction>

if they are not equivalent what is the C# for date("c")

context :
I send the first soap to someone who work in PHP, and he's saying me the date is not valid, he gave me an exemple in php with date("c") and it work. So I wonder if my code is wrong.

I filter the soap request with mssoapt and the two request are equals except the datetime.

Those look equivalent to me. UTC and GMT are not exactly the same thing, but the differences don't matter here. The C# code uses higher precision and a different way of expressing a `0` offset. — CodesInChaos, Mar 20 '12 at 16:32
could this different way of expressing a 0 offset is known as pb with webservices treatment — Christophe Debove, Mar 20 '12 at 16:56

Kirill Polishchuk · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-20T16:36:07.773

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Z means Zulu time, which is equivalent to GMT+00:00.

The UTC time zone is sometimes denoted by the letter Z—a reference to the equivalent nautical time zone (GMT), which has been denoted by a Z since about 1950.

Reference: Wikipedia–Time zones

edited Mar 20 '12 at 16:36

answered Mar 20 '12 at 16:30

Kirill Polishchuk

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ok this is not the pb, I wanna know if it's possible to get 2012-03-20T16:04:29+00:00 in the soap from C# – Christophe Debove Mar 20 '12 at 16:46
@ChristopheDebove, You can use `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+00:00` string format. – Kirill Polishchuk Mar 20 '12 at 16:56
My C# proxy class( the web reference) is waiting a DateTime not a string – Christophe Debove Mar 20 '12 at 16:57
@ChristopheDebove, What technology are you using? WCF? – Kirill Polishchuk Mar 20 '12 at 17:02
i'm in console project for the test but after I'm in monorail project both are webreference or servicereference (same result). – Christophe Debove Mar 20 '12 at 17:04
@ChristopheDebove, As I know, you can't specify format during serialization. One possible solution is to customize your data contract and send datetime as string. – Kirill Polishchuk Mar 20 '12 at 17:11

Gmt php or UTC C# equivalence through SOAP

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