.NET Common Language Runtime Unleashed

System.TimeZone

The TimeZone class encapsulates information about time zones and provides conversion utilities between local time and UTC time. Listing B.17 provides an example using TimeZone (timezone.cs).

Listing B.17. TimeZone Example

public class TimeZoneMain { static void Main(string [] args) { TimeZone tz = TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone; Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} ", tz.DaylightName, tz.StandardName); DaylightTime dt = tz.GetDaylightChanges(DateTime.Now.Year); Console.WriteLine("Start daylight savings time {0} ", dt.Start); Console.WriteLine("End daylight savings time {0} ", dt.End); Console.WriteLine("Daylight savings time change {0} ", dt.Delta); Console.WriteLine("Is daylight savings? {0} ", tz.IsDaylightSavingTime(DateTime.Now)); Console.WriteLine("UTC ...