Crystal Reports and SQL Server 2008 datetimeoffset

SQL Server 2008 introduced new data type datetimeoffset which stores local time and offset between local time and UTC. But when a table containing datetimeoffset column is added to Crystal Reports 2008, the datetimeoffset column is exposed as string in CR Field Explorer rather than DateTime. Is there a way to manipulate datetimeoffset to get the date, time and offset values in CR 2008 other than string convers开发者_运维知识库ion? Is there a DateTimeOffset data type in CR 2010?

Sample of datetimeoffset string as displayed in CR 2008:

2009-08-14 16:37:32.0000000 +07:00

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This is the kind of impedance that can easily be countered with a view.

You could create a view representation of that table (or all tables that have the datetime offsets) and use SQL Server's native functions to convert the problematic date time fields into a result set that Crystal Reports can consume without having to resort to string parsing.

If you don't want to bother with a view you can also just write a query that converts from datetimeoffset to a datetime thusly.