set global timezone in .net core

Question

In .Net Core 2 -

Is there a way to set the application's timezone globally so that whenever I request for DateTime.Now I'll get the current time for a timezone I want (lets say GMT+3) instead of the time of the server where the application is hosted?

I figured a good place to have a configuration providing this would be the Startup.cs file, but my search queries gets me nowhere with this.

Solution 1

You can use TimeZoneInfo for this

DateTime eastern = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeBySystemTimeZoneId(DateTime.Now, "Eastern Standard Time");

Replace with the desired time zone.

Solution 2

No.

DateTime.Now always returns the time in the system's local time zone.

Comments

[JustAMartin]

Be careful with cross-platform issues: devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/…