RE: AIF custom service TransDate field is rendering as date at 12 PM

I ran the question I posted past a co-worker here and he thought my question was not clear either, so I'm sorry for that.

Console.WriteLine(item.shippingDateRequested.ToString("zzz"));
Console.WriteLine(item.shippingDateRequested.Kind.ToString());
Console.WriteLine("{0:o}", item.shippingDateRequested);

Ran that and got

-07:00
Unspecified
2015-10-05T12:00:00.0000000

So based on that, I'm still at a bit of a loss as to why I'm getting 12 PM.  I'll try the CIL debugging route to see what's going on. 

Thanks for the help and ideas.