Get local time based on coordinates
You can do it using Google api for identifying current timezone.
.Net Fiddle example:
public class Program
{
public static DateTime GetLocalDateTime(double latitude, double longitude, DateTime utcDate)
{
var client = new RestClient("https://maps.googleapis.com");
var request = new RestRequest("maps/api/timezone/json", Method.GET);
request.AddParameter("location", latitude + "," + longitude);
request.AddParameter("timestamp", utcDate.ToTimestamp());
request.AddParameter("sensor", "false");
var response = client.Execute<GoogleTimeZone>(request);
return utcDate.AddSeconds(response.Data.rawOffset + response.Data.dstOffset);
}
public static void Main()
{
var myDateTime = GetLocalDateTime(33.8323, -117.8803, DateTime.UtcNow);
Console.WriteLine(myDateTime.ToString());
}
}
public class GoogleTimeZone
{
public double dstOffset { get; set; }
public double rawOffset { get; set; }
public string status { get; set; }
public string timeZoneId { get; set; }
public string timeZoneName { get; set; }
}
public static class ExtensionMethods
{
public static double ToTimestamp(this DateTime date)
{
DateTime origin = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
TimeSpan diff = date.ToUniversalTime() - origin;
return Math.Floor(diff.TotalSeconds);
}
}
And then you can easily use your GetLocalDateTime(double latitude, double longitude, DateTime utcDate)
method as it was shown in the example above:
public static void Main()
{
var myDateTime = GetLocalDateTime(33.8323, -117.8803, DateTime.UtcNow);
Console.WriteLine(myDateTime.ToString());
}
Here's my solution. It works offline (so no call to an api). It's fast and the packages are widely used and available on Nuget.
string tzIana = TimeZoneLookup.GetTimeZone(lat, lng).Result;
TimeZoneInfo tzInfo = TZConvert.GetTimeZoneInfo(tzIana);
DateTimeOffset convertedTime = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTime(DateTimeOffset.UtcNow, tzInfo);