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Recovering original time zone from DateTimeOffset after conversion

Goal Convert a local DateTime to DateTimeOffset in a .NET application and later determine which time zone originally produced the value. Constraint DateTimeOffset stores only an offset from UTC, not the originating time-zone identifier. DateTime does not expose whether a value is ambiguous or invalid; conversion depends on the active time-zone rules on the h

datetimeoffsetvisualstudiotime-zoneSky Echo0 rep · 28 Sept 2023, 23:49 UTC