DateTime.Today for a specific time zone

Question

I need to check whether a certain time zone is still within a specified date. Something like DateTime.Today == DateTime.Parse("2016-06-30") but for certain time zone. What is the best way to do it?

Answer 1

You need to get UTC Time, find TimeZoneInfo, and convert UTC time to your TimeZoneInfo.

DateTime utcTime = DateTime.UtcNow;
TimeZoneInfo serverZone = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById(YourTimeZoneID);
DateTime currentDateTime = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(utcTime, serverZone);

Answer 2

I would check out the TimeZoneInfo class.

Method for converting the to a specific timezone is:

public static DateTime ConvertTime(
    DateTime dateTime,
    TimeZoneInfo sourceTimeZone,
    TimeZoneInfo destinationTimeZone
)

There are other methods for dealing with things like UTC as well. Check out the documentation here.