Parse a date string into a certain timezone (supporting daylight saving time)

Question

Ok i\'ve been working very hard the last few weeks and i\'ve come across a small problem. I don\'t think my mind is quite up to the task right now :) so i need some tips/hel

Answer 1

As no-one has provided any better solutions (which is very surprising!) i'm accept my own function as the answer, although i might make the function more concise and re-work it a bit later:

public DateTimeOffset ReadStringWithTimeZone(string EnteredDate, TimeZoneInfo tzi)
{
    DateTimeOffset cvUTCToTZI = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTime(DateTimeOffset.UtcNow, tzi);
    DateTimeOffset cvParsedDate = DateTimeOffset.MinValue;
    DateTimeOffset.TryParse(EnteredDate + " " + cvUTCToTZI.ToString("zzz"), out cvParsedDate);
    if (tzi.SupportsDaylightSavingTime)
    {
        TimeSpan getDiff = tzi.GetUtcOffset(cvParsedDate);
        string MakeFinalOffset = (getDiff.Hours < 0 ? "-" : "+") + (getDiff.Hours > 9 ? "" : "0") + getDiff.Hours + ":" + (getDiff.Minutes > 9 ? "" : "0") + getDiff.Minutes;
        DateTimeOffset.TryParse(EnteredDate + " " + MakeFinalOffset, out cvParsedDate);
        return cvParsedDate;
    }
    else
    {
        return cvParsedDate;
    }
}