Convert UTC/GMT time to local time

Question

We are developing a C# application for a web-service client. This will run on Windows XP PC\'s.

One of the fields returned by the web service is a DateTime field. Th

Answer 1

I'd look into using the System.TimeZoneInfo class if you are in .NET 3.5. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezoneinfo.aspx. This should take into account the daylight savings changes correctly.

// Coordinated Universal Time string from 
// DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().ToString("u");
string date = "2009-02-25 16:13:00Z"; 
// Local .NET timeZone.
DateTime localDateTime = DateTime.Parse(date); 
DateTime utcDateTime = localDateTime.ToUniversalTime();

// ID from: 
// "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zone"
// See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezoneinfo.id.aspx
string nzTimeZoneKey = "New Zealand Standard Time";
TimeZoneInfo nzTimeZone = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById(nzTimeZoneKey);
DateTime nzDateTime = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(utcDateTime, nzTimeZone);