WP7: TimeZone Info and how to Get It

Unlike on the desktop, Silverlight for Windows Phone only provides local and UTC time zone information. I had a requirement for a stock trading application to display all of the transaction times in Eastern time. The difficulty was determining if Daylight Savings Time was in effect or not. On the desktop TimeZoneInfo supports all of the time zones supported in Windows 7, so this is very straight forward.

On Windows Phone, we considered using a rule based on dates, but of course this would break ff the daylight savings rules ever change, which they do from time to time.

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