DateTime.Today for a specific time zone

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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?

[This](http://stackoverflow.com/a/441145/4934172) might help. — 41686d6564 stands w. Palestine, Jul 01 '16 at 02:20

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '16 at 02:19

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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);

answered Jul 01 '16 at 02:19

currarpickt

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Thanks! But since what I need is just date, here is what I did: `DateTime theDate = (TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(utcTime, serverZone)).Date;` – Endy Tjahjono Jul 01 '16 at 03:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 01 '16 at 02:20

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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.

answered Jul 01 '16 at 02:20

Cubicle.Jockey

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great, it works ``` DateTime today = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTime(DateTime.Today, zone);``` – Johann Medina Jul 14 '18 at 00:46

DateTime.Today for a specific time zone

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