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.Net performance Tips

Posted Date: 21 May 2008	Resource Type: Tips	Category: Web Development
Author: revathi	Member Level: Silver
Rating:	Points: 3

DateTime.now() method is commonly used to get the current time.
The value returned by the Now() method is in the current time-zone context.
A common practice is to convert time that is going to be stored or sent between machines into universal time(UTC).

This can introduce bugs when daylight savings time is a possibility.

For ex: DateTime date=DateTime.now().ToUniversalTime();

The value that results from the above code will be off by an hour if called during the extra hour that occurs during the daylight savings time switch in the fall.

To fix this bug, use DateTime.UtcNow() instead of calling DateTime.Now() and then converting it to universal time.

DateTime date=DateTime.UtcNow();

This will always have the 24 –hour-day perspective, and may then be safely converted to local time.

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