I have a string, which contains a timestamp (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
). I can create a CultureInfo
object based on other information I get. Therefore I know which country the timestamp is in. The timestamp is not in UTC/GMT.
Say the timestamp is from Indonesia (new CultureInfo("id-ID")
) , meaning the string was created by code below or similar.
DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
That means the string contains the local time in Indonesia. I know my timezone, but I don't know how to convert the Indonesian time to UTC/GMT, so I can use the UTC/GMT object in TimeZoneInfo
. My own timezone may or may not be in the same timezone.
Is there anywhere, this information is connected?
CultureInfo
has a lot of properties, surely some of them can be used to get timezone, somwhere?
I might add that I find the entire system very confusing, so I could be way off in how I think things works.
Short answer: No
Long Answer: This is a 1 to many relationship between culture and timezone. For example: en-US - English, American contains 6 timezones... so how would you get from en-US to Eastern Daylight time? ... and how do you get the daylight savings time offsets?
It's a confusing cultural conundrum (wow, try saying that 5 times fast) that is not easily solvable with the CLR.
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