How to get the TimeZone for metazones by using FindSystemTimeZoneById?

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I was given the TzID (Olson tzid format Exp: "Europe/Copenhagen"). After that, i tried to do the timezone conversion for certain DateTime from that timezone (different with server local time zone) to UTC by using c# TimeZonInfo class.

I was wondering why window's timezone id only have about 100 whereas the timezone id for Olson tz database have about 405 tz id. Lets say for time zone "Europe/Copenhagen", i have no idea how to use the FindSystemTimeZonebyID to get the time zone info for this time zone (It was listed in metazones in the Olson ID to windows ID convertion table). Anyone experienced in this? Please help me.

http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/zone_tzid.html[^]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones[^]

Posted 27-Jan-11 15:21pm

darrell987

Updated 27-Jan-11 23:21pm

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shakil0304003 · Answer 1 · 2011-01-27T18:24:00

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Posted 27-Jan-11 18:24pm

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darrell987 28-Jan-11 8:34am

Thanks for the reply. I know how to use FindSystemTimeZonebyID to convert local time to UTC and also converting DateTime from one time zone to another. I was just unclear of how to retrieve the time zone information for certain timezone like "Europe/Copenhagen" who have the corresponding Windows Timezone ID of "Europe_Central" which cannot be found in the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones". Thanks again for your help.

darrell987 · Answer 2 · 2011-02-08T22:18:00

Solution 2

At the end, i gave up with the class "timezoneinfo" method and just using the Olson database. There's a nice tool to access and calling the Olson database in .Net.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/locale/zoneinfo_dotnet_api.aspx

Posted 8-Feb-11 22:18pm

darrell987