Converting UTC DateTime to local DateTime

Question

I have the following ASP.Net MVC Controller method:

public ActionResult DoSomething(DateTime utcDate)
{
   var localTime = utcDate.ToLocalTime();
}

Answer 1

Try the following:

public static DateTime UtcToPacific(DateTime dateTime)
        {
            return TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(dateTime, TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Pacific Standard Time"));
        }

Obviously change Pacific to your local timezone.

If you want to find out what time zones are present on your machine see the following link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397781.aspx