Get a DateTime set in a particular time zone in C#!

DateTime howSoonIsNow = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTime(DateTime.Now,
      TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Central Standard Time"));

 
 

How do you know what to use for the "Central Standard Time" magic string you ask? Great question. You may dig up a list of time zones like this:

ReadOnlyCollection<TimeZoneInfo> zones = TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones();
foreach (TimeZoneInfo zone in zones)
{
   var magicString = zone.Id;

 
 

Each TimeZoneInfo has a .Id hanging off of it which holds the magic string you need. There are 139 possibilities:

1. Dateline Standard Time
2. UTC-11
3. Aleutian Standard Time
4. Hawaiian Standard Time
5. Marquesas Standard Time
6. Alaskan Standard Time
7. UTC-09
8. Pacific Standard Time (Mexico)
9. UTC-08
10. Pacific Standard Time
11. US Mountain Standard Time
12. Mountain Standard Time (Mexico)
13. Mountain Standard Time
14. Central America Standard Time
15. Central Standard Time
16. Easter Island Standard Time
17. Central Standard Time (Mexico)
18. Canada Central Standard Time
19. SA Pacific Standard Time
20. Eastern Standard Time (Mexico)
21. Eastern Standard Time
22. Haiti Standard Time
23. Cuba Standard Time
24. US Eastern Standard Time
25. Turks And Caicos Standard Time
26. Paraguay Standard Time
27. Atlantic Standard Time
28. Venezuela Standard Time
29. Central Brazilian Standard Time
30. SA Western Standard Time
31. Pacific SA Standard Time
32. Newfoundland Standard Time
33. Tocantins Standard Time
34. E. South America Standard Time
35. SA Eastern Standard Time
36. Argentina Standard Time
37. Greenland Standard Time
38. Montevideo Standard Time
39. Magallanes Standard Time
40. Saint Pierre Standard Time
41. Bahia Standard Time
42. UTC-02
43. Mid-Atlantic Standard Time
44. Azores Standard Time
45. Cape Verde Standard Time
46. UTC
47. GMT Standard Time
48. Greenwich Standard Time
49. Sao Tome Standard Time
50. W. Europe Standard Time
51. Central Europe Standard Time
52. Romance Standard Time
53. Morocco Standard Time
54. Central European Standard Time
55. W. Central Africa Standard Time
56. Jordan Standard Time
57. GTB Standard Time
58. Middle East Standard Time
59. Egypt Standard Time
60. E. Europe Standard Time
61. Syria Standard Time
62. West Bank Standard Time
63. South Africa Standard Time
64. FLE Standard Time
65. Israel Standard Time
66. Kaliningrad Standard Time
67. Sudan Standard Time
68. Libya Standard Time
69. Namibia Standard Time
70. Arabic Standard Time
71. Turkey Standard Time
72. Arab Standard Time
73. Belarus Standard Time
74. Russian Standard Time
75. E. Africa Standard Time
76. Iran Standard Time
77. Arabian Standard Time
78. Astrakhan Standard Time
79. Azerbaijan Standard Time
80. Russia Time Zone 3
81. Mauritius Standard Time
82. Saratov Standard Time
83. Georgian Standard Time
84. Volgograd Standard Time
85. Caucasus Standard Time
86. Afghanistan Standard Time
87. West Asia Standard Time
88. Ekaterinburg Standard Time
89. Pakistan Standard Time
90. Qyzylorda Standard Time
91. India Standard Time
92. Sri Lanka Standard Time
93. Nepal Standard Time
94. Central Asia Standard Time
95. Bangladesh Standard Time
96. Omsk Standard Time
97. Myanmar Standard Time
98. SE Asia Standard Time
99. Altai Standard Time
100. W. Mongolia Standard Time
101. North Asia Standard Time
102. N. Central Asia Standard Time
103. Tomsk Standard Time
104. China Standard Time
105. North Asia East Standard Time
106. Singapore Standard Time
107. W. Australia Standard Time
108. Taipei Standard Time
109. Ulaanbaatar Standard Time
110. Aus Central W. Standard Time
111. Transbaikal Standard Time
112. Tokyo Standard Time
113. North Korea Standard Time
114. Korea Standard Time
115. Yakutsk Standard Time
116. Cen. Australia Standard Time
117. AUS Central Standard Time
118. E. Australia Standard Time
119. AUS Eastern Standard Time
120. West Pacific Standard Time
121. Tasmania Standard Time
122. Vladivostok Standard Time
123. Lord Howe Standard Time
124. Bougainville Standard Time
125. Russia Time Zone 10
126. Magadan Standard Time
127. Norfolk Standard Time
128. Sakhalin Standard Time
129. Central Pacific Standard Time
130. Russia Time Zone 11
131. New Zealand Standard Time
132. UTC+12
133. Fiji Standard Time
134. Kamchatka Standard Time
135. Chatham Islands Standard Time
136. UTC+13
137. Tonga Standard Time
138. Samoa Standard Time
139. Line Islands Standard Time