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A discriminated union in F# is compiled to an abstract class and its options become nested concrete classes. type DU = A | B DU is abstract while DU.A and DU.B are concrete. With ServiceStack, the serialization of types to JSON strings and back can be customized with functions. With respect to the DU type, here's how I could do it in C#. using ServiceStack.Text; JsConfig<DU.A>.SerializeFn = v => "A"; // Func<DU.A, String> JsConfig<DU.B>.SerializeFn = v => "B"; // Func<DU.B, String> JsConfig<DU>.DeserializeFn = s => if s == "A" then DU.NewA() else DU.NewB(); // Func<String, DU> Is F# aware of

I have a POCO like this: public class BlogEntry { public string Title { get; set; } public DateTime Date { get; set; } } Most of the time it's being hydrated from Entity Framework, but it can and will be used outside of Entity Framework. The DateTimeKind for the Date from EF is Unspecified, which from what I read is normal. When I cache this POCO in Redis (using the ServiceStack Redis client), it comes back with a DateTimeKind of Local. So there is a jitter with the returned objects. The first pass (uncached) has ISO-8061 with no offset (DateTimeKind.Unspecified). The second pass (cached) is