Deserialization of DateTimeOffset value fails depending on system's timezone

I encountered an issue while materializing a date/time value as DateTimeOffset. Please see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50628374 where I initially asked for help.

Source/destination types

public class RootObject
{
    [JsonProperty("revisedDate", NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)]
    public DateTimeOffset? RevisedDate { get; set; }
}

Source/destination JSON

{
  "revisedDate": "0001-01-01T00:00:00"
}

Expected behavior

In the abscence of a timezone, I expected Json.NET to in this case deserialize the value and return a valid DateTimeOffset equal to DateTimeOffset.MinValue.

Actual behavior

An exception was thrown in the DateTimeOffset.Parse method, and Json.NET reported “Could not convert string to DateTimeOffset: 0001-01-01T00:00:00. Path ‘resource.revisedDate’, line 20, position 44.” to the caller.

Steps to reproduce

Please refer to the answer provided by dbc for steps to reproduce the issue: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50631270/1503584

[a2741890]

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