Optimizing alternatives to DateTime.Now

Question

A colleague and I are going back and forth on this issue and I\'m hoping to get some outside opinions as to whether or not my proposed solution is a good idea.

First

Answer 1

One difference between the result of

DateTime.Now

and

DateTime.UtcNow + LocalUtcOffset 

is the value of the Kind property - Local vs Utc respectively. If the resultant DateTime is being passed to a third party library consider returning

DateTime.SpecifyKind(DateTime.UtcNow + LocalUtcOffset, DateTimeKind.Local)