How do I get .Net XML deserialization to preserve DateTimeKind?

I have an XML string with the following date: 2001-01-01T03:40:00Z

Note how it ends with Z,开发者_JAVA百科 to indicate UTC.

I deserialize like so:

using (StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xmlString))
    using (XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(stringReader))
        obj = (MyObject)sr.ReadObject(xmlReader);

But when I go to the corresponding DateTime fields in the resulting object, the Kind field is set to "Unspecified" rather than "Utc" which is what it should be. How do I work around this bug?

The Kind field doesn't have a setter so the XmlSerializer won't be able to set it.

Many recommend always serializing the time as UTC and then calling ToLocalTime if you need it.

See this.