[release/8.0-staging] [main] Fixed DateTimeOffset.Now calls on Android with specific conditions #94718
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Backport of #94710 to release/8.0-staging
/cc @steveisok @Saratsin
Customer Impact
Developers targeting Android encountered
ThrowOverflowOrFormatExceptionwhen usingDateTimeOffset.Nowfor cultures where negative numbers have the-symbol appended rather than prepended. (e.g.2000-in arabic culture).Testing
Local testing
Risk
Low. The change enables
DateTimeOffset.Nowon Android to parse the time obtained from Java APIs in a culture-independent manner.IMPORTANT: If this backport is for a servicing release, please verify that:
The PR target branch is
release/X.0-staging, notrelease/X.0.If the change touches code that ships in a NuGet package, you have added the necessary package authoring and gotten it explicitly reviewed.