how to Globally convert UTC DateTimes to user specified local DateTimes

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i want to convert UTC date time to local so any on ecan operate app then it will take their local time but it should be global dont have to cange in all pages

Posted 26-Mar-14 19:58pm

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Raul Iloc · Answer 1 · 2014-03-26T20:15:00

Solution 1

There is method for doing this in DateTime class itself, see the next example:

C#

DateTime utcDate1 = date1.ToUniversalTime(); //This is an UTC date!
DateTime date2 = utcDate1.ToLocalTime(); // And now is converted to local date!

This solution works on windows desktop application, but not in the case of web application when the clients could be from any country and your code run on the server. So in this second case you should see the next link and you have to use Javascript in you web page:
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_gettimezoneoffset.asp[^]

Posted 26-Mar-14 20:15pm

Raul Iloc

Updated 26-Mar-14 20:22pm

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Member 9579525 27-Mar-14 3:25am

i have to change in all page instead i want global solution which convert UTC to localtime

Raul Iloc 27-Mar-14 3:46am

You are using MVC, so you could do the change only in your layout (master page)!

Member 9579525 27-Mar-14 7:36am

i have written fun in layout.cshtml and calling that where i want display date but it is giving invalid date
//function

<script type="text/javascript">

$(function () {

var d = new Date()
var offsetms = d.getTimezoneOffset();// * 60 * 1000;

$('.UTCTime').each(function () {

try {

var text = $(this).html();

var n = new Date(text);
alert(n);//invalid date
n = new Date(n.valueOf() - offsetms);
n = new Date(n - offsetms);

$(this).html(n.toDateString("MM/dd/yyyy") + " " + n.toLocaleTimeString("hh:mm tt"));

$(this).attr("Converted from UTC " + text);
}
catch (ex) {

console.warn("Error converting time", ex);
}
});
});

</script>

//in cshtml
<td class="UTCTime"> @Model.date.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy, hh:mm tt")
</td>