Daylight Saving event

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Hi,
I need to do something when daylight saving occurs. I know that there is some
TimeChange event that happens but this event is also happens when user change the time manualy and i cant distinguish between those 2 situation.
I need an event that will tell me for sure: "DayLight saving happened now and not manual time change".

Please advice,
Thanks.

Posted 5-Mar-12 8:25am

kh_yaniv

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Mar-12 14:38pm

Good question, my 5, but preliminary Google search shows that this is problematic.
--SA

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snorkie · Answer 1 · 2012-03-05T08:49:00

kh_yaniv293,

Try using the System.Timezone class. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezone.aspx[^] This class has a really cool function called "IsDaylightSavingTime(DateTime)". You could leverage that function with the current date to see if you're in DST or not.

If you store the previous DST check somewhere, you can compare the old with the current and detect when the change takes place. Since its part of the framework, it should be updated if the DST parameters change for that location, which they occasionally do.

Hogan

El_Codero · Answer 2 · 2012-03-05T08:48:00

Hi,

perhaps it itsn't 100% your topic, but maybe you can handle something with this simple proof and create a event if changed.

C#

public bool IsDay(DateTime value)
        {
            if (value.Hour > 7 && value.Hour < 19)
                return true;
            else
                return false;
        }
        public bool IsNight(DateTime value)
        {
            bool isDay = IsDay(value);
            return !isDay;
        }

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pietvredeveld · Answer 3 · 2012-03-05T08:54:00

Don't know the existence of the event you're looking for, but as a workaround you could use the windows events log.

When a user changes the time this event will be written in the windows events log. So when the TimeChange event occurs you could read the windows events log to detect manual time changes and daylight savings.

Piet

Daylight Saving event

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