Read a post's date as the Berlin calendar day, not the raw UTC day

Elternbeirat.PocketBase/DateOnlyConverter.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+using System.Text.Json;
+using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
+
+namespace Elternbeirat.PocketBase;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     JSON converter that reads and writes a PocketBase date as a calendar date
+///     (<see cref="DateOnly"/>), ignoring the time-of-day and the time zone.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+///     PocketBase has no date-only field type: it stores every date as a UTC
+///     instant with a time-of-day (e.g. an editor's <c>2 Jan 00:00</c> Berlin is
+///     stored as <c>"2026-01-01 22:00:00.000Z"</c>). The day the editor meant is
+///     therefore the day <em>in Berlin</em>, not the day of the raw UTC string. This
+///     converter reuses the same UTC-&gt;Berlin conversion as
+///     <see cref="LocalDateTimeConverter"/> and then keeps only the date, so the day
+///     shown is the day that was entered -- with no time-of-day and no off-by-one.
+/// </remarks>
+/// <remarks>
+///     Registered on the client's <see cref="System.Text.Json.JsonSerializerOptions"/>
+///     and matched by the <see cref="DateOnly"/> field type, so a contract needs no
+///     per-field attribute (which would couple the contract to this project).
+/// </remarks>
+public sealed class DateOnlyConverter : JsonConverter<DateOnly>
+{
+    /// <inheritdoc/>
+    /// <exception cref="FormatException">
+    ///     The stored value is not a valid date string.
+    /// </exception>
+    public override DateOnly Read(
+        ref Utf8JsonReader reader,
+        Type typeToConvert,
+        JsonSerializerOptions options)
+        => WallClock.Parse(reader.GetString()) is { } berlin
+            ? DateOnly.FromDateTime(berlin)
+            : default;
+
+    /// <inheritdoc/>
+    public override void Write(
+        Utf8JsonWriter writer,
+        DateOnly value,
+        JsonSerializerOptions options)
+        => writer.WriteStringValue(WallClock.Format(value.ToDateTime(TimeOnly.MinValue)));
+}

Elternbeirat.PocketBase/PocketBaseClient.cs

@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ public sealed class PocketBaseClient(HttpClient http)
         => GetRecordsAsync<Faq>("faqs", "topic", ct);
 
     /// <summary>
-    ///     Creates the serializer options with both wall-clock date converters registered.
+    ///     Creates the serializer options with the date converters registered: the
+    ///     wall-clock ones for points in time and the calendar-day one for plain dates.
     /// </summary>
     /// <returns>
     ///     The configured options.
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ public sealed class PocketBaseClient(HttpClient http)
         };
         options.Converters.Add(new LocalDateTimeConverter());
         options.Converters.Add(new NullableLocalDateTimeConverter());
+        options.Converters.Add(new DateOnlyConverter());
         return options;
     }