Convert Date time to specific format in C#

Question

I want to convert date time to specify format that is

Wed Aug 01 2012 14:37:50 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)

Actually i want to display th

Answer 1

If you do not want to hardcode the GMT offset and cannot rely on the local time being India Standard Time you can pull this information from the TimeZoneInfo:

// get UTC from local time
var today = DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime();
// get IST from UTC
var ist = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeBySystemTimeZoneId(today, "UTC", "India Standard Time");
// find the IST TimeZone
var tzi = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("India Standard Time");
// get the UTC offset TimeSpan
var offset = tzi.GetUtcOffset(today);
// determine the TimeSpan sign
var sign = offset.Ticks < 0 ? "-" : "+";
// use a custom format string
var formatted = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "{0:ffffd MMM HH:mm:ss} GMT{1}{2:hhmm}", today, sign, offset);