>>OK. Still don't understand what 2011-08-23T17:05:04.859-17:05 actually represents tho. -17:00 I could understand, but -17:05 ?
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>This was before it wasn't good. That was a bad layout.
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>The proper representation is:
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>2011-08-23T17:05:04.859-05:05
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>So, I had to adjust accordingly to that.

OK. Not important but I still do not understand that format. If the last part is intended to represent an offset why the five minutes? If not an offset then what part does it play? A .NET DateTimeOffset of similar structure will obviously give weird results:

DateTimeOffset dto = new DateTimeOffset(new DateTime(2011,8,23,17,05,04), new TimeSpan(5,5,0));

See dto.DateTime v. dto.LocalDateTime