Force XmlSerializer to serialize DateTime as ‘YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss’

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In the past, I’ve done the following to control datetime serialization:

  • Ignore the DateTime property.
  • Create a dummy string property that serializes/deserializes the way I want

Here is an example:

public class SomeClass
{
    [XmlIgnore]
    public DateTime SomeDate { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("SomeDate")]
    public string SomeDateString
    {
        get { return this.SomeDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); }
        set { this.SomeDate = DateTime.Parse(value); }
    }
}

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