How to get the local date time value

Question

Hi,
I am Australian time zone. I have been using the below code to retrieve meeting start date time from my Sharepoint Calendar.
Console.WriteLine((DateTime)oListItem["EndDate"]);
This used to return the correct local date up until today. I simply read this and store in a database. Today when I check I can see that the date returned is different to what I can see in the Sharepoint calendar.
For and example: In Sharepoint calendar I can see the date as "Oct 1 2014 5:30 PM". But my above code now returns "Oct 1 2014 6:30 AM". This looks to me like UTC time.
But up until today my code above returned the correct local date. Is there any reason for this sudden chahge?
When I read the TimeZone in sharepoint (using RegionalSettings.TimeZone method) it return the correct time zone too.
Any help would be appreciated. I am concerned that I have to now go and change all places where I read the date time from sharepoint.
Thanks, Bimal
Bimal

Answer 1

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you had some issue about the calendar time.
As your code worked well before, the issue may be related to the calendar itself or the site.
As the TimeZone is correct, you can recreate a new calendar to check whether it works.
Or create a new site to check whether it works.
I had made a simple demo to retrieve the calendar EndDate time, you can also check with it.
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://YourSiteURL "))
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
SPList spList = web.Lists.TryGetList("Calendar1");
if (spList != null)
SPQuery qry = new SPQuery();
qry.ViewFields = @"<FieldRef Name='EventDate' /><FieldRef Name='EndDate' />";
SPListItemCollection listItems = spList.GetItems(qry);
foreach (SPListItem item in listItems)
string startTime = item["EventDate"].ToString();
string endTime = item["EndDate"].ToString();
Console.WriteLine("Start Time:"+startTime);
Console.WriteLine("End Time:"+endTime);
Thanks,
Jason
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