Category "timezone"

DateTime vs DateTimeOffset

What is the difference between a DateTime and a DateTimeOffset and when should one be used? Currently, we have a standard way of dealing with .NET DateTimes in

MySQL default time format UTC or GMT?

Hi I'm so confused with this UTC and GMT I'm inserting in MySQL table as ex column "event_date" like "2010-07-01 23:50:00" (datetime) my client asking an opti

How to preserve timezone when parsing date/time strings with strptime()?

I have a CSV dumpfile from a Blackberry IPD backup, created using IPDDump. The date/time strings in here look something like this (where EST is an Australian ti