Prevent Json.NET 4.5 from appending timezone offset when using MicrosoftDateFormat

Question

Short of a custom DateTimeConverterBase implementation, is there some way to keep Json.NET 4.5+, when set to use DateFormatHandling.MicrosoftDateFormat

Answer 1

I found a solution to remove timezone offset from DateTime for latest version 9.0.0:

var time = DateTime.Now;

Console.WriteLine(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(time, new JsonSerializerSettings()
{
    DateFormatHandling = DateFormatHandling.IsoDateFormat,
    DateTimeZoneHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.DateTimeZoneHandling.Unspecified
}));

//"{"thedate": "2016-12-15T09:20:00.9375403"};