I was asked by someone to help them display the current date and time as it is in British Summer Time or Daylight Saving Time on their website using C# Here is the solution I gave them:

//get the current UTC time
DateTime localServerTime = DateTime.UtcNow;

//Find out if the GMT is in daylight saving time or not.
var info = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("GMT Standard Time");
var isDaylightSaving = info.IsDaylightSavingTime(localServerTime);

//set the time to be the local server time
var correctDateTime = localServerTime;

//if the zone is in daylight saving add an hour.
if (isDaylightSaving)
{
    correctDateTime = correctDateTime.AddHours(1);
}

//get the UK culture and return the correct date time in the correct format
var culture = new CultureInfo("en-GB");
Console.WriteLine(correctDateTime.ToString(culture));

I know it is specific to GMT and BST but you could take it and modify it to your needs.

Paul Seal

Umbraco MVP and .NET Web Developer from Derby (UK) who specialises in building Content Management System (CMS) websites using MVC with Umbraco as a framework. Paul is passionate about web development and programming as a whole. Apart from when he's with his wife and son, if he's not writing code, he's thinking about it or listening to a podcast about it.

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