Why is RestSharp deserializing two dates differently?

Question

I have a rest call that returns this (using Advance Rest Client in Chrome to do testing):

MyObject: [22]
0:  {
ID: "123456"
UTC1: "2013-04-19T03:12:32Z"
UTC2: "2013-04-19T03:12:36.994Z"
}

The code that grabs the response and serializes it to an object looks like this:

IRestResponse<List<MyObject>> response = client.Execute<List<MyObject>>(request);

When I look at the response object one of the dates is wrong. If I inspect it or use the objects in any way I get this:

UTC1: 4/19/2013 3:12     
UTC2: 4/18/2013 9:12:36 PM <--CONVERTED!!

I need both to be serialized as the time that is returned in the response, not converted from UTC/GMT to local time. As you can see above one value keeps its UTC value while the other gets converted to my timezone. I figured that both were being run through the Convert.DateTime function but if I do that with the strings both values come out as converted to local time. I realize that one fo the original values (the one that is getting converted) doesn't exactly obey ISO 8601 format (too much precision); unfortunately that is the data I have to work with for now.

Can anyone tell me how to force RestSharp to make sure both dates are in UTC?

Answer 1

Use Json.NET to do the deserialization instead of the built in RestSharp deserializer.

response = client.Execute(request);    
var myObjects = JsonConvert.Deserialize<List<MyObject>>(response)