DateTime.Now vs. DateTime.UtcNow

Question

I\'ve been wondering what exactly are the principles of how the two properties work. I know the second one is universal and basically doesn\'t deal with time zones, but can

Answer 1

Also note the performance difference; DateTime.UtcNow is somewhere around 30 times faster then DateTime.Now, because internally DateTime.Now is doing a lot of timezone adjustments (you can easily verify this with Reflector).

So do NOT use DateTime.Now for relative time measurements.