Roundtrip XML Serialization of DateTime and xsd:date?

Question

OK, what am I missing here? MSDN says the following with regard to DateTimeSerializationMode:

In versions 2.0 and later of the .Net Framework, with this

Answer 1

I opened a Connect issue and got this back from Microsoft, confirming my fears:

We have different behaviors for handling Date, Time and DateTime values. For DateTime values, if XmlDateTimeSerializationMode is not Local the information about the kind (UTC, Local or Unspecified) is preserved. This is also true while deserializing. However, for Date and Time, they are always serialized out with the same format: (yyyy-MM-dd for Date and HH:mm:ss.fffffff.zzzzzz for Time). So the information about kind is lost on serializing and deserializing. We are opening a documentation bug on our side in order to improve the documentation about this.