Re: Finding the offset of a specific time zone

You can use DateTime.UtcNow to get the current time in UTC.  e.g.:
DateTime utcDate = DateTime.UtcNow;

You can use DateTime.ToUniversalTime() to convert a local time to UTC.  e.g.:  
DateTime date = new DateTime(1968, 11, 05, 12,0,0);
DateTime utcDate = date.ToUniversalTime();

You can change the type of a date from local to UTC with the SpecifyKind method (i.e. you get a DateTime object from a database; but it's default kind is local and its value is actually UTC) e.g:
DateTime dateTime = GetRecordDateFromDatabase(id);
dateTime = dateTime.SpecifyKind(DateTimeKind.Utc);

You can convert a UTC time to local time with DateTime.ToLocalTime.  E.g.:
DateTime utcDate = GetUtcDateFromSomewhere();
DateTime localDate = utcDate .ToLocalTime();

-- Peter

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