How does one deal with multiple TimeZones in applications that store dates and times?

Question

I realize this is a bit subjective, but I\'m hoping to pick everyones brain here on how they deal with multiple timezones? There are a variety of similar questions here and

Answer 1

I think the new best practice with sql server 2008 is to always use the datetimeoffset datatype. normalizing dates to UTC is also good practices; but not always feasible or desirable.

See this blog post for more thoughts: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bartd/archive/2009/03/31/the-death-of-datetime.aspx