(String)JToken vs JToken.ToString()

[jeffrson]

Except for #1241 there's a problem with the following code:

String js = "{ \"DateTime\": \"2017-03-07T17:26:40.352Z\" }";
var jo = JObject.Parse(js);
String ds1 = (String)jo["DateTime"];
String ds2 = jo["DateTime"].ToString();

ds1 is not equal to ds2 - while ds1 apparently has some english or american format, ds2 contains a localized version. I would expect that both values are equal.

[fqborges]

I found the same issue, and I made a test to isolate it:

[Fact]
void Test_DateAsString()
{
    string str = "{ \"value\" : \"2008-12-28T00:00:00\"  }";
    var json = JObject.Parse(str);
    Assert.Equal("2008-12-28T00:00:00", json.Value<string>("date"));
}

Since I read value as a string value, it should return the exact string.

[Lakritzator]

This is related to #904 right?

[fqborges]

Yes, it seems so.