[Mono-list] Cross platform time zones

[Ryan Kirkpatrick]

Neil Stalker wrote:
> In windows the timezones have a descriptive name such as "Eastern 
> Standard Time" but in linux the same timezone has the name 
> "US/Eastern". Is there a cross platform way of running 
> TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById that can be used both in linux
> and windows...

Not that I ever found. I have a .NET client application writing a
Windows timezone name to a database on a Linux system that a .NET server
application on that Linux system needs to use. I had to setup my own
conversion function for the common US timezones. In case it helps anyone
else, here is the mapping I used:

WINDOWS TIMEZONE ID          DESCRIPTION                UNIX TIMEZONE ID
Eastern Standard Time     => GMT-5 w/DST             => US/Eastern
Central Standard Time     => GMT-6 w/DST             => US/Central
US Central Standard Time  => GMT-6 w/o DST (Indiana) => US/Indiana-Stark
Mountain Standard Time    => GMT-7 w/DST             => US/Mountain
US Mountain Standard Time => GMT-7 w/o DST (Arizona) => US/Arizona
Pacific Standard Time     => GMT-8 w/DST             => US/Pacific
Alaskan Standard Time     => GMT-9 w/DST             => US/Alaska
Hawaiian Standard Time    => GMT-10 w/DST            => US/Hawaii

-- 
Ryan Kirkpatrick <ryan.kirkpatrick at inovonics.com>, 303-209-7190
Senior Design Engineer
Inovonics Wireless Corporation

This email transmission and any documents, files or previous email
messages attached to it contains information that is confidential
or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or a
person responsible for delivering this transmission to the intended
recipient, you are hereby notified that you must not read this
transmission and that any disclosure, copying, printing,
distribution or use of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If
you have received this transmission in error, please immediately
notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the
original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving
in any manner. Thank you.