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

To answer in reverse order:

2) I cannot think of a faster way.

1) It would be worth checking if there are any framework improvements in the pipeline like they have just announced for System.IO

It's hard to be sure about safety but it's something that is crying out for a lot of unit tests. Daylight savings comes to mind. The System one is obviously very battle hardened while yours is not.