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Given a DateTime object, how do I get an ISO 8601 date in string format?

Given: 

DateTime.UtcNow

How do I get a string which represents the same value in an ISO 8601-compliant format?

Note that ISO 8601 defines a number of similar formats. The specific format I am looking for is: 

yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ

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TarmoPikaro

Note to readers: Several commenters have pointed out some problems in this answer (related particularly to the first suggestion). Refer to the comments section for more information. 

DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH\\:mm\\:ss.fffffffzzz", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Using custom date-time formatting, this gives you a date similar to
2008-09-22T13:57:31.2311892-04:00.

Another way is: 

DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("o", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

which uses the standard "round-trip" style (ISO 8601) to give you
2008-09-22T14:01:54.9571247Z.

To get the specified format, you can use: 

DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
These days, doing that (trying to render a UTC time with an offset, which doesn't make a lot of sense) throws an exception. So, I agree with the others that the "s" format with the invariant culture is probably more correct. FYI the formatexception's message is: "A UTC DateTime is being converted to text in a format that is only correct for local times. This can happen when calling DateTime.ToString using the 'z' format specifier, which will include a local time zone offset in the output."
I live in Australia, and for me I had to use ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK") for this to work (with the jquery timeago plugin I was using).
If you want to include the timezone offset, do this: dt.ToString("s") + dt.ToString("zzz") // 2013-12-05T07:19:04-08:00
The slashes (\:) cause issues with the string... put in an @ character to use a string literal instead.
@core: that's one of the standard Formats, which is different from the custom Formats linked: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1(v=vs.110).aspx
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Neo

DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("s", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) should give you what you are looking for as the "s" format specifier is described as a sortable date/time pattern; conforms to ISO 8601.

EDIT: To get the additional Z at the end as the OP requires, use "o" instead of "s".

I believe this is the correct answer. There is no point in explicitly defining the yyyy-MM-etc if Microsoft already implemented ISO 8601. Iain's response was right, too, but you should always specify the InvariantCulture (or any other CultureInfo) for multiple reasons (i.e. never assume .NET should just assume). You can also use: DateTime.UtcNow.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.DateTimeFormat.SortableDateTimePattern); However, since all of these exclude the time zone, etc., you might have no choice but to use the explicit formatter, i.e. "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffZ"
While it conforms, it leaves out the timezone, Z, looking like this: DateTime.UtcNow.ToString(c, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)) => 2012-06-26T11:55:36 and there's no millisecond resolution that is very nice to have since computers do a fair number of ticks per second.
With o you get 2012-06-26T11:55:36.1007668Z meaning 36.1007668 seconds, so you get resolution down to 1/10^7 of a second. From ISO8601:2004 If a decimal fraction is included, lower order time elements (if any) shall be omitted and the decimal fraction shall be divided from the integer part by the decimal sign [...] the comma (,) or full stop (.)
@stimpy77 Specifying CultureInfo for "s" makes no sense because: “"O" (or "o"), "R" (or "r"), "s", and "u". These strings correspond to custom format strings defined by the invariant culture. They produce string representations of date and time values that are intended to be identical across cultures.”
@binki - now I'm very confused. According to the documentation I linked earlier for SortableDateTimePattern, it says it should be culture specific. HOWEVER, it seems to be contradicted by its own examples (since they all look the same); try DateTime.Now.ToString("s", new CultureInfo(myCulture)).
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Peter Mortensen 
DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("s")

Returns something like 2008-04-10T06:30:00

UtcNow obviously returns a UTC time so there is no harm in: 

string.Concat(DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("s"), "Z")
Just out of interest: Why string.Concat() rather than '+'?
Habbit, is there a difference?
@KoenZomers: I don't think that's correct. I think a + b compiles to the same intermediate code as string.Concat(a, b) (assuming that a and b are strings, of course) so there is no difference in performance or memory consumption.
Yes, Mark is correct. Koen, you have just fallen into the trap of an absurdly premature micro-optimisation, even if you are correct.
@greg84: Well, you are not entirely right. Look at this post by Microsoft architect Rico Mariani: blogs.msdn.com/b/ricom/archive/2003/12/15/43628.aspx - he says a + b does compile to concat + there's some more information about proper usage of StringBuilder.
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Kolappan N

Use: 

private void TimeFormats()
{
    DateTime localTime = DateTime.Now;
    DateTime utcTime = DateTime.UtcNow;
    DateTimeOffset localTimeAndOffset = new DateTimeOffset(localTime, TimeZoneInfo.Local.GetUtcOffset(localTime));

    //UTC
    string strUtcTime_o = utcTime.ToString("o");
    string strUtcTime_s = utcTime.ToString("s");
    string strUtcTime_custom = utcTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK");

    //Local
    string strLocalTimeAndOffset_o = localTimeAndOffset.ToString("o");
    string strLocalTimeAndOffset_s = localTimeAndOffset.ToString("s");
    string strLocalTimeAndOffset_custom = utcTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK");

    //Output
    Response.Write("<br/>UTC<br/>");
    Response.Write("strUtcTime_o: " + strUtcTime_o + "<br/>");
    Response.Write("strUtcTime_s: " + strUtcTime_s + "<br/>");
    Response.Write("strUtcTime_custom: " + strUtcTime_custom + "<br/>");

    Response.Write("<br/>Local Time<br/>");
    Response.Write("strLocalTimeAndOffset_o: " + strLocalTimeAndOffset_o + "<br/>");
    Response.Write("strLocalTimeAndOffset_s: " + strLocalTimeAndOffset_s + "<br/>");
    Response.Write("strLocalTimeAndOffset_custom: " + strLocalTimeAndOffset_custom + "<br/>");

}

OUTPUT 

UTC
    strUtcTime_o: 2012-09-17T22:02:51.4021600Z
    strUtcTime_s: 2012-09-17T22:02:51
    strUtcTime_custom: 2012-09-17T22:02:51Z

Local Time
    strLocalTimeAndOffset_o: 2012-09-17T15:02:51.4021600-07:00
    strLocalTimeAndOffset_s: 2012-09-17T15:02:51
    strLocalTimeAndOffset_custom: 2012-09-17T22:02:51Z

Sources:

Standard Date and Time Format Strings (MSDN)

Custom Date and Time Format Strings (MSDN)

seems you are a victim of copying at local custom ;-) string strLocalTimeAndOffset_custom = localTimeAndOffset.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK"); would result in: strLocalTimeAndOffset_custom: 2012-09-17T22:02:51-07:00
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Henrik 
System.DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("o")

=> 

val it : string = "2013-10-13T13:03:50.2950037Z"
Agreed this is the only way to be absolutely sure that you have an unambiguous date/time across any timezone
I do this in .net 5 and get no Z.
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rburte

Surprised that no one suggested it: 

System.DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("u").Replace(' ','T')

# Using PowerShell Core to demo

# Lowercase "u" format
[System.DateTime]::UtcNow.ToString("u")
> 2020-02-06 01:00:32Z

# Lowercase "u" format with replacement
[System.DateTime]::UtcNow.ToString("u").Replace(' ','T')
> 2020-02-06T01:00:32Z

The UniversalSortableDateTimePattern gets you almost all the way to what you want (which is more an RFC 3339 representation).

Added: I decided to use the benchmarks that were in answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/43793679/653058 to compare how this performs.

tl:dr; it's at the expensive end but still just a little over half a millisecond on my crappy old laptop :-)

Implementation: 

[Benchmark]
public string ReplaceU()
{
   var text = dateTime.ToUniversalTime().ToString("u").Replace(' ', 'T');
   return text;
}

Results: 

// * Summary *

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.11.5, OS=Windows 10.0.19002
Intel Xeon CPU E3-1245 v3 3.40GHz, 1 CPU, 8 logical and 4 physical cores
.NET Core SDK=3.0.100
  [Host]     : .NET Core 3.0.0 (CoreCLR 4.700.19.46205, CoreFX 4.700.19.46214), 64bit RyuJIT
  DefaultJob : .NET Core 3.0.0 (CoreCLR 4.700.19.46205, CoreFX 4.700.19.46214), 64bit RyuJIT


|               Method |     Mean |     Error |    StdDev |
|--------------------- |---------:|----------:|----------:|
|           CustomDev1 | 562.4 ns | 11.135 ns | 10.936 ns |
|           CustomDev2 | 525.3 ns |  3.322 ns |  3.107 ns |
|     CustomDev2WithMS | 609.9 ns |  9.427 ns |  8.356 ns |
|              FormatO | 356.6 ns |  6.008 ns |  5.620 ns |
|              FormatS | 589.3 ns |  7.012 ns |  6.216 ns |
|       FormatS_Verify | 599.8 ns | 12.054 ns | 11.275 ns |
|        CustomFormatK | 549.3 ns |  4.911 ns |  4.594 ns |
| CustomFormatK_Verify | 539.9 ns |  2.917 ns |  2.436 ns |
|             ReplaceU | 615.5 ns | 12.313 ns | 11.517 ns |

// * Hints *
Outliers
  BenchmarkDateTimeFormat.CustomDev2WithMS: Default     -> 1 outlier  was  removed (668.16 ns)
  BenchmarkDateTimeFormat.FormatS: Default              -> 1 outlier  was  removed (621.28 ns)
  BenchmarkDateTimeFormat.CustomFormatK: Default        -> 1 outlier  was  detected (542.55 ns)
  BenchmarkDateTimeFormat.CustomFormatK_Verify: Default -> 2 outliers were removed (557.07 ns, 560.95 ns)

// * Legends *
  Mean   : Arithmetic mean of all measurements
  Error  : Half of 99.9% confidence interval
  StdDev : Standard deviation of all measurements
  1 ns   : 1 Nanosecond (0.000000001 sec)

// ***** BenchmarkRunner: End *****
The accepted answer of "o" does work, but it gives an annoying amount of precision (geez .XXXXXXX seconds) whereas I prefer this since it stops at seconds.
Also that doc claims "u" is ISO 8601, but what's with the space instead of T? get it together microsoft
@jhocking en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#cite_note-30 ISO 8601 is relatively permissive if you read through it...
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Alex Nolasco

You have a few options including the "Round-trip ("O") format specifier". 

var date1 = new DateTime(2008, 3, 1, 7, 0, 0);
Console.WriteLine(date1.ToString("O"));
Console.WriteLine(date1.ToString("s", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));

Output 

2008-03-01T07:00:00.0000000
2008-03-01T07:00:00

However, DateTime + TimeZone may present other problems as described in the blog post DateTime and DateTimeOffset in .NET: Good practices and common pitfalls:

DateTime has countless traps in it that are designed to give your code bugs: 1.- DateTime values with DateTimeKind.Unspecified are bad news. 2.- DateTime doesn't care about UTC/Local when doing comparisons. 3.- DateTime values are not aware of standard format strings. 4.- Parsing a string that has a UTC marker with DateTime does not guarantee a UTC time.

ISO8601 is used in strava for one. However please use:StartTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ") rather than ToString("o") which adds milliseconds etc.
For me, "yyyy-MM-dd-THH:mm:ssZ" literally outputted "Z" at the end of my string instead of a timezone marker, which did not do what I wanted. ToString("o") actually did what I needed, much easier and shorter.
@BlairConnolly You were right. The "z" format specifier should have been lowercase. As indicated here, the capital "Z" is only valid when your date is actually in UTC.
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Peter Mortensen

You can get the "Z" (ISO 8601 UTC) with the next code: 

Dim tmpDate As DateTime = New DateTime(Now.Ticks, DateTimeKind.Utc)
Dim res as String = tmpDate.toString("o") '2009-06-15T13:45:30.0000000Z

Here is why:

The ISO 8601 have some different formats:

DateTimeKind.Local 

2009-06-15T13:45:30.0000000-07:00

DateTimeKind.Utc 

2009-06-15T13:45:30.0000000Z

DateTimeKind.Unspecified 

2009-06-15T13:45:30.0000000

.NET provides us with an enum with those options: 

'2009-06-15T13:45:30.0000000-07:00
Dim strTmp1 As String = New DateTime(Now.Ticks, DateTimeKind.Local).ToString("o")

'2009-06-15T13:45:30.0000000Z
Dim strTmp2 As String = New DateTime(Now.Ticks, DateTimeKind.Utc).ToString("o")

'2009-06-15T13:45:30.0000000
Dim strTmp3 As String = New DateTime(Now.Ticks, DateTimeKind.Unspecified).ToString("o")

Note: If you apply the Visual Studio 2008 "watch utility" to the toString("o") part you may get different results, I don't know if it's a bug, but in this case you have better results using a String variable if you're debugging.

Source: Standard Date and Time Format Strings (MSDN)

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Kolappan N

I would just use XmlConvert: 

XmlConvert.ToString(DateTime.UtcNow, XmlDateTimeSerializationMode.RoundtripKind);

It will automatically preserve the time zone.

I went ahead and added an extension method. public static class DateTimeExtensions { public static string ToIsoFormat(this DateTime dateTime) { return XmlConvert.ToString(dateTime, XmlDateTimeSerializationMode.RoundtripKind); } }
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Kolappan N

Most of these answers have milliseconds / microseconds which clearly isn't supported by ISO 8601. The correct answer would be: 

System.DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK");
// or
System.DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK");

References:

ISO 8601 specification

"K" Specifier

Read your own Wikipedia link under "Times". It mentions "Decimal fractions", meaning ISO 8601 supports both milliseconds and microseconds (but communicating parties may limit number of decimal places accepted).
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Pablo Salcedo 
DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss zzz");

DateTime.Now.ToString("O");

NOTE: Depending on the conversion you are doing on your end, you will be using the first line (most like it) or the second one.

Make sure to applied format only at local time, since "zzz" is the time zone information for UTC conversion.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/NFhkW.png

I'm not so sure #ChrisHynes since he is asking about the suggestion I made regarding the first line of code, but if you are correct and that's the case the answer is "ReSharper"
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Rory O'Kane

The "s" standard format specifier represents a custom date and time format string that is defined by the DateTimeFormatInfo.SortableDateTimePattern property. The pattern reflects a defined standard (ISO 8601), and the property is read-only. Therefore, it is always the same, regardless of the culture used or the format provider supplied. The custom format string is "yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss". When this standard format specifier is used, the formatting or parsing operation always uses the invariant culture.

– from MSDN

So it is okay to use .ToString("s")?
I believe so. - As long as your requirement matches the original question that is.. But do take a look at the warning by simon wilson below
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Peter Mortensen

To convert DateTime.UtcNow to a string representation of yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ, you can use the ToString() method of the DateTime structure with a custom formatting string. When using custom format strings with a DateTime, it is important to remember that you need to escape your seperators using single quotes.

The following will return the string represention you wanted: 

DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss'Z'", DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo)
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Roman Pokrovskij

It is interesting that custom format "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK" (without ms) is the quickest format method.

Also it is interesting that "S" format is slow on Classic and fast on Core...

Of course numbers are very close, between some rows difference is insignificant (tests with suffix _Verify are the same as those that are without that suffix, demonstrates results repeatability) 

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.10.5, OS=Windows 10.0.14393
Processor=Intel Core i5-2500K CPU 3.30GHz (Sandy Bridge), ProcessorCount=4
Frequency=3233539 Hz, Resolution=309.2587 ns, Timer=TSC
  [Host] : Clr 4.0.30319.42000, 64bit RyuJIT-v4.6.1637.0
  Clr    : Clr 4.0.30319.42000, 64bit RyuJIT-v4.6.1637.0
  Core   : .NET Core 4.6.25009.03, 64bit RyuJIT


               Method |  Job | Runtime |       Mean |     Error |    StdDev |     Median |        Min |        Max | Rank |  Gen 0 | Allocated |
--------------------- |----- |-------- |-----------:|----------:|----------:|-----------:|-----------:|-----------:|-----:|-------:|----------:|
           CustomDev1 |  Clr |     Clr | 1,089.0 ns | 22.179 ns | 20.746 ns | 1,079.9 ns | 1,068.9 ns | 1,133.2 ns |    8 | 0.1086 |     424 B |
           CustomDev2 |  Clr |     Clr | 1,032.3 ns | 19.897 ns | 21.289 ns | 1,024.7 ns | 1,000.3 ns | 1,072.0 ns |    7 | 0.1165 |     424 B |
     CustomDev2WithMS |  Clr |     Clr | 1,168.2 ns | 16.543 ns | 15.474 ns | 1,168.5 ns | 1,149.3 ns | 1,189.2 ns |   10 | 0.1625 |     592 B |
              FormatO |  Clr |     Clr | 1,563.7 ns | 31.244 ns | 54.721 ns | 1,532.5 ns | 1,497.8 ns | 1,703.5 ns |   14 | 0.2897 |     976 B |
              FormatS |  Clr |     Clr | 1,243.5 ns | 24.615 ns | 31.130 ns | 1,229.3 ns | 1,200.6 ns | 1,324.2 ns |   13 | 0.2865 |     984 B |
       FormatS_Verify |  Clr |     Clr | 1,217.6 ns | 11.486 ns | 10.744 ns | 1,216.2 ns | 1,205.5 ns | 1,244.3 ns |   12 | 0.2885 |     984 B |
        CustomFormatK |  Clr |     Clr |   912.2 ns | 17.915 ns | 18.398 ns |   916.6 ns |   878.3 ns |   934.1 ns |    4 | 0.0629 |     240 B |
 CustomFormatK_Verify |  Clr |     Clr |   894.0 ns |  3.877 ns |  3.626 ns |   893.8 ns |   885.1 ns |   900.0 ns |    3 | 0.0636 |     240 B |
           CustomDev1 | Core |    Core |   989.1 ns | 12.550 ns | 11.739 ns |   983.8 ns |   976.8 ns | 1,015.5 ns |    6 | 0.1101 |     423 B |
           CustomDev2 | Core |    Core |   964.3 ns | 18.826 ns | 23.809 ns |   954.1 ns |   935.5 ns | 1,015.6 ns |    5 | 0.1267 |     423 B |
     CustomDev2WithMS | Core |    Core | 1,136.0 ns | 21.914 ns | 27.714 ns | 1,138.1 ns | 1,099.9 ns | 1,200.2 ns |    9 | 0.1752 |     590 B |
              FormatO | Core |    Core | 1,201.5 ns | 16.262 ns | 15.211 ns | 1,202.3 ns | 1,178.2 ns | 1,225.5 ns |   11 | 0.0656 |     271 B |
              FormatS | Core |    Core |   993.5 ns | 19.272 ns | 24.372 ns |   999.4 ns |   954.2 ns | 1,029.5 ns |    6 | 0.0633 |     279 B |
       FormatS_Verify | Core |    Core | 1,003.1 ns | 17.577 ns | 16.442 ns | 1,009.2 ns |   976.1 ns | 1,024.3 ns |    6 | 0.0674 |     279 B |
        CustomFormatK | Core |    Core |   878.2 ns | 17.017 ns | 20.898 ns |   877.7 ns |   851.4 ns |   928.1 ns |    2 | 0.0555 |     215 B |
 CustomFormatK_Verify | Core |    Core |   863.6 ns |  3.968 ns |  3.712 ns |   863.0 ns |   858.6 ns |   870.8 ns |    1 | 0.0550 |     215 B |

Code: 

    public class BenchmarkDateTimeFormat
    {
        public static DateTime dateTime = DateTime.Now;

        [Benchmark]
        public string CustomDev1()
        {
            var d = dateTime.ToUniversalTime();
            var sb = new StringBuilder(20);

            sb.Append(d.Year).Append("-");
            if (d.Month <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(d.Month).Append("-");
            if (d.Day <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(d.Day).Append("T");
            if (d.Hour <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(d.Hour).Append(":");
            if (d.Minute <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(d.Minute).Append(":");
            if (d.Second <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(d.Second).Append("Z");
            var text = sb.ToString();
            return text;
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public string CustomDev2()
        {
            var u = dateTime.ToUniversalTime();
            var sb = new StringBuilder(20);
            var y = u.Year;
            var d = u.Day;
            var M = u.Month;
            var h = u.Hour;
            var m = u.Minute;
            var s = u.Second;
            sb.Append(y).Append("-");
            if (M <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(M).Append("-");
            if (d <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(d).Append("T");
            if (h <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(h).Append(":");
            if (m <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(m).Append(":");
            if (s <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(s).Append("Z");
            var text = sb.ToString();
            return text;
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public string CustomDev2WithMS()
        {
            var u  = dateTime.ToUniversalTime();
            var sb = new StringBuilder(23);
            var y  = u.Year;
            var d  = u.Day;
            var M  = u.Month;
            var h  = u.Hour;
            var m  = u.Minute;
            var s  = u.Second;
            var ms = u.Millisecond;
            sb.Append(y).Append("-");
            if (M <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(M).Append("-");
            if (d <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(d).Append("T");
            if (h <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(h).Append(":");
            if (m <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(m).Append(":");
            if (s <= 9)
                sb.Append("0");
            sb.Append(s).Append(".");
            sb.Append(ms).Append("Z");
            var text = sb.ToString();
            return text;
        }
        [Benchmark]
        public string FormatO()
        {
            var text = dateTime.ToUniversalTime().ToString("o");
            return text;
        }
        [Benchmark]
        public string FormatS()
        {
            var text = string.Concat(dateTime.ToUniversalTime().ToString("s"),"Z");
            return text;
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public string FormatS_Verify()
        {
            var text = string.Concat(dateTime.ToUniversalTime().ToString("s"), "Z");
            return text;
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public string CustomFormatK()
        {
            var text = dateTime.ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK");
            return text;
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public string CustomFormatK_Verify()
        {
            var text = dateTime.ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK");
            return text;
        }
    }

https://github.com/dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet was used

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blackforest-tom

Using Newtonsoft.Json, you can do 

JsonConvert.SerializeObject(DateTime.UtcNow)

Example: https://dotnetfiddle.net/O2xFSl

best answer here.
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Peter Mortensen

If you're developing under SharePoint 2010 or higher you can use 

using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities;
...
string strISODate = SPUtility.CreateISO8601DateTimeFromSystemDateTime(DateTime.Now)
SharePoint, when your .Net isn't Java enough.
Using SharePoint for this is kind of like bringing a tub of jelly, a wet box of matches and 2 trapeze-walking chimpanzees to a gun fight.
Even in SharePoint hopefully you can use the BCL’s .ToString("o") or, better, $"My complicated string {dt:o}".
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Nick Gallimore

To format like 2018-06-22T13:04:16 which can be passed in the URI of an API use: 

public static string FormatDateTime(DateTime dateTime)
{
    return dateTime.ToString("s", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}
I think this ISO date string is culture invariant per definition.
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Vlad DX

As mentioned in other answer, DateTime has issues by design.

NodaTime

I suggest to use NodaTime to manage date/time values:

Local time, date, datetime

Global time

Time with timezone

Period

Duration

Formatting

So, to create and format ZonedDateTime you can use the following code snippet: 

var instant1 = Instant.FromUtc(2020, 06, 29, 10, 15, 22);

var utcZonedDateTime = new ZonedDateTime(instant1, DateTimeZone.Utc);
utcZonedDateTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss'Z'", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
// 2020-06-29T10:15:22Z


var instant2 = Instant.FromDateTimeUtc(new DateTime(2020, 06, 29, 10, 15, 22, DateTimeKind.Utc));

var amsterdamZonedDateTime = new ZonedDateTime(instant2, DateTimeZoneProviders.Tzdb["Europe/Amsterdam"]);
amsterdamZonedDateTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss'Z'", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
// 2020-06-29T12:15:22Z

For me NodaTime code looks quite verbose. But types are really useful. They help to handle date/time values correctly.

Newtonsoft.Json

To use NodaTime with Newtonsoft.Json you need to add reference to NodaTime.Serialization.JsonNet NuGet package and configure JSON options. 

services
    .AddMvc()
    .AddJsonOptions(options =>
    {
        var settings=options.SerializerSettings;
        settings.DateParseHandling = DateParseHandling.None;
        settings.ConfigureForNodaTime(DateTimeZoneProviders.Tzdb);
    });

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