Migration from local server to Azure: TIMEZONE UTC. How to solve?

Question

I designed my application considering the fact that, according to the specifications, should run on a server located in Italy and clients will be italian people only.

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Answer 1

I have asked to MS support.

This is the response:

Changing the server time on the Azure Virtual Machines using a startup task is not recommended, you should rather use methods like TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUTCTime in your code.

So I will not change the server timezone. Waiting for a response from the support I discover that SqlServer 2008 have a DateTimeOffset data type that is perfect!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidrickard/archive/2012/04/07/system-datetime-good-practices-and-common-pitfalls.aspx