It used to be that we would use TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones() to enumerate time zones.
How do you do it in Windows 8 apps?
It used to be that we would use TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones() to enumerate time zones. How
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It used to be that we would use TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones() to enumerate time zones.
How do you do it in Windows 8 apps?
I’ve just
blogged about how to do this and included the code you need as a
gist.
Also, to address another commenter, no, ARM compatibility is not an issue as the marshaling happens correctly.
EDIT: just made it one better and turned it into a general purpose NuGet package:
https://nuget.org/packages/WinRTTimeZones
The source is here: https://github.com/onovotny/WinRTTimeZones