ServiceStack + OrmLite日期格式问题

Question

I'm using ServiceStack + OrmLite and I'm having some trouble with OrmLite saving DateTimeOffset objects.

I need to save it into a SQL Server DB with a neutral culture format (for example ISO8601) so when the user changes his culture it won't have any impact on how it's written to the DB because now it's generating Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string. errors due to culture conversion issues.

Is there any OrmLite configuration option or something similar to avoid this problem?

Answer 1

Date/time types in SQL Server, including datetime and datetimeoffset are not stored with any culture. They're not stored as strings at all. They are internally stored with a binary representation.

If your class in C# uses a property with a DateTimeOffset type, and your table in SQL Server uses a column with a datetimeoffset type, then strings (and culture) should never enter the picture.

You might get strings if you manually crafted a SQL string and inlined your values instead of using parameters. But I doubt an ORM would make this mistake.

Or are you trying to stuff the string representation of a DateTimeOffset into a varchar field?

Post some code so we can see what you're doing.