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I'm trying to use DateTimeOffset to convey a specific moment in time across any time zone. I can't figure out how to use TimeZoneInfo to deal with daylight savings time.

var dt = DateTime.UtcNow;
Console.WriteLine(dt.ToLocalTime());

var tz = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Central Standard Time");
var utcOffset = new DateTimeOffset(dt, TimeSpan.Zero);
Console.WriteLine(utcOffset.ToOffset(tz.BaseUtcOffset));

This prints out:

6/2/2010 4:37:19 PM
6/2/2010 3:37:19 PM -06:00

I am in the central time zone, and and we are currently in daylight savings time. I am trying to get the second line to read:

6/2/2010 4:37:19 PM -05:00

BaseUtcOffset apparently doesn't change based on DST.

How can I get the the right time with the proper offset value?

Thanks.

+1  A: 

You need to get the UtcOffset from the TimeZoneInfo, then pass that to the ToOffset() method:

var dt = DateTime.UtcNow;
Console.WriteLine(dt.ToLocalTime());

var tz = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Central Standard Time");
var utcOffset = new DateTimeOffset(dt, TimeSpan.Zero);
Console.WriteLine(utcOffset.ToOffset(tz.GetUtcOffset(utcOffset)));
Paul Kearney - pk
i see...you've got to get the UTC offset for that specific date in the timezone.thanks.
jaminto