C# DateTime type over web service with PHP & SOAP

Question

I work with web services written in C#, with PHP on my (client) side.

SOAP __getTypes returns that one of the expected parameter to be

Answer 1

For one web service we use, the service allows for filtering entries by createdAt timestamps with a DateTime object. What I've found to work with this might be a little kludgy but:

$date = new stdClass();
$date->DateTime = '2012-01-01T00:00:00Z';
$date->OffsetMinutes = -480; // Los Angeles offset also can just be set to NULL

Then the params could be:

$params = array(
 'birthDate' => $date
);

I've looked for ways to use PHP's native DateTime objects but could find any easier way to go.

Hope this helps.