How do you get info for an arbitrary time zone in Windows?
Have you look at this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezoneinfo.getsystemtimezones.aspx
The time zone information is contained as binary data in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\(zone name)\TZI
. The structure of the data is given in the TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION documentation:
struct STimeZoneFromRegistry
{
long Bias;
long StandardBias;
long DaylightBias;
SYSTEMTIME StandardDate;
SYSTEMTIME DaylightDate;
};
And here's example code to read the key:
TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION tz = {0};
STimeZoneFromRegistry binary_data;
DWORD size = sizeof(binary_data);
HKEY hk = NULL;
TCHAR zone_key[] = _T("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Time Zones\\Central Standard Time");
if ((RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, zone_key, 0, KEY_QUERY_VALUE, &hk) == ERROR_SUCCESS) &&
(RegQueryValueEx(hk, "TZI", NULL, NULL, (BYTE *) &binary_data, &size) == ERROR_SUCCESS))
{
tz.Bias = binary_data.Bias;
tz.DaylightBias = binary_data.DaylightBias;
tz.DaylightDate = binary_data.DaylightDate;
tz.StandardBias = binary_data.StandardBias;
tz.StandardDate = binary_data.StandardDate;
}
Edit: Sorry, this answer is redundant - I'm sure you could have figured all this out using the documentation you linked to in the question. I've only had to do this once, and this is the only method I could find.
Here is an example without the registry. The timezone information depends on the year, so I added a parameter to hold that.
TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION GmtTimezone( const wstring& name, SYSTEMTIME utc )
{
DYNAMIC_TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION dynamicTimezone = {};
DWORD result=0;
for( DWORD i = 0; result!=ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS; ++i )
{
result = ::EnumDynamicTimeZoneInformation( i, &dynamicTimezone );
if( result==ERROR_SUCCESS && name==dynamicTimezone.StandardName )
break;
}
if( result!=ERROR_SUCCESS )
throw L"Could not find timezone "+name;
TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION tz;
if( !GetTimeZoneInformationForYear(static_cast<USHORT>(utc.wYear), &dynamicTimezone, &tz) )
throw "GetTimeZoneInformationForYear failed"+std::to_string(GetLastError());
return tz;
//SYSTEMTIME localTime;
//SystemTimeToTzSpecificLocalTime( &tz, &utc, &localTime );
//auto offsetHours = localTime.wHour-utc.wHour;
}