How to store TimeZoneInfo objects in a database?

Question

Somewhat misleading title, I know. Never actually wanted to store TimeZoneInfo object themselves: rather, I want to store some culture-neutral identifier, which can

Answer 1

I don't see an issue with storing the IDs, as they appear to be a constant value across the windows platform - that is, a specific ID will always map to the same TimeZoneInfo object, regardless of which version of windows you use.

I am not sure what mono does, but I would not be surprised if this would be the same. You can always check the class source code.