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blackwind090
blackwind090

Reputation: 63

How to get timezone name in different language C# on Azure

I am currently getting TimeZone using 

 string TimeZoneName = "Indian Standard Time";
 var tz = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById(TimeZoneName);

It is currently returning the desired value in English even if I change the Current culture and I am currently testing the code on Azure (Web App Service). Please help me to find a way in which I can get the code to return value in Different language like Arabic, French, etc.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1982

Answers (3)

Bandi Tóth
Bandi Tóth

Reputation: 167

TimeZoneInfo timeZone = TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones().SingleOrDefault(z => z.DaylightName == TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.DaylightName);

This will return the current timezone based on the OS language.

Upvotes: 2

Yanga
Yanga

Reputation: 3012

You can install the nuget package : https://github.com/mj1856/TimeZoneNames

PM> Install-Package TimeZoneNames

It' a simple library that provides localized time zone names using CLDR and TZDB sources.

Example:

var names = TZNames.GetNamesForTimeZone("Romance Standard Time", "en-GB");

names.Generic == "Central European Time"
names.Standard == "Central European Standard Time"
names.Daylight == "Central European Summer Time"

Upvotes: 1

TomTom
TomTom

Reputation: 62159

This is because you are not dealing with a NAME, but an ID.

TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById

Read the method name. It does not say "by name" but "by id". The ID is meant to be the same across all languages.

What you can do is go across all timezones and compared names (Display Name) likely, then take the one you want. The names is localized:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezoneinfo.displayname(v=vs.110).aspx

The display name is localized based on the culture installed with the Windows operating system.

But the ID does not never ever change. On purpose.

Upvotes: 0

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