DateTime.ToString in Mono return invalid date (“00/734718/0001 01:41:38”)

Question

I am trying to get mono (Debian 2.10.8.1-5) to run properly on my raspberry pi with the raspbian distro (\"Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid\"). I have installed mono with apt-get

Answer 1

This is Mono bug #7938, and it affects not just DateTime.ToString, but ANY function that, directly or indirectly, passes a floating-point number to a library call, when running on ARM with a Linux distro built for the hard-float ABI. More details are available at the C# on Raspberry Pi wiki page. There is currently no good fix for this, short of running a soft-float distro. I'm still hoping we can get a fixed mono runtime soon.