Comments on: TimeZone vs. TimeZoneInfo in .Net

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:28:24 +0000

Thanks – Exactly what I was looking for! Incorporated into website and works like a charm

By: Mickey

Mickey — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:09:28 +0000

Can this work with .NET 1.1 ?

By: John

John — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:37:55 +0000

Great article! One question though. I need to display the timezone abbrievation along with the date-time. All I can find are the long names for the timezones. Any thoughts on this?

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:38:29 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for these two great articles. It really clarified things and helped me migrate from an older approach (found on Code Project) to the .Net 3.5 way. It also allows me to migrate my web app from Windows Server 2003 to 2008. Thank you!

By: Dan Rigsby

Dan Rigsby — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:28:47 +0000

You have a number of options. If you are storing the date at UTC, then you just need to call ToLocalTime(). If you arent using UTC times, then you need to somehow send the offset (from GMT) to the clients. This can be a global variable you store if this doesnt change. A offset might be -4 hours. Then you can just use the DateAdd methods to add the positive or negative number to calculate the offset.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:06:13 +0000

Hi Dan,
I have to use .Net 2.0 for now.
I have a WinForms app that needs to simultaneously show times for our 3-4 offices around the world, so everyone running it will see the times at all offices, regardless of what time zone the client computer is in. Given DateTime.Now, I was hoping the .ToString() method would take an optional timezone parameter, but no such luck.

Do you have any suggestions for how to do this in .NET 2.0. It looks like support is better in 3.5, but I can’t go there yet.

Thanks in advance,
Steve

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