changing US winter and summer time

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On my site I have a clock that displays US time.
Is there a simple way to change from summer time to winter time
or I have to change my code every winter and summer
I am using ASP.NET with C#

Posted 3-Nov-13 11:53am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Nov-13 18:26pm

Why do you think it needs any code?
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-11-03T12:17:00

It depends on the OS used to host your HTTP server, but most of OS are configured to automatically switch summer saving time shift on and off, depending on location and date. You don't have to worry about it. System.DateTime.Now will simply give you correct time.

Another solution is to use UTC time only on the server side (System.DateTime.UtcNow. The client-side code can translate UTC to their local times, according to the location and culture of the local systems.

Please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/System.DateTime%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.now(v=vs.110).aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.utcnow%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

—SA