Ignoring DateTime.Kind?

In 4.76.0, how would I go about configuring CompareLogic to ignore the Kind property of DateTime objects? IgnoreDateTimeOffsetTimezones = true does not work it seems.

Diff string looks like this:

Types [DateTime,DateTime], Item Expected.StartDate != Actual.StartDate, Values (2022-03-28 13:46:00,2022-03-28 13:46:00)

The only differences between the objects is Kind.Utc vs Kind.Unspecified.

I think the Unspecified kind is due to a bug/feature in .Net Core 3 APIs. It only happens when I call the API with Postman using a body containing:

"StartDate": "{{dateTimeNow}}"

… where dateTimeNow is specified in the following way in the pre-request script:

var dateTimeNow = pm.variables.replaceIn("{{$isoTimestamp}}");

I also think the common solution to this problem is to force Kind.Utc onto DateTime objects created from the incoming request body, and I could potentially do that, but I’m not sure at this point what it would do on the API consumer side.

[GregFinzer]

Deployed: https://www.nuget.org/packages/CompareNETObjects/4.77.0

[ltrzesniewski]

Thanks! 🙂