How to convert a univeral date string to local time

I'm trying to read a universal date string and convert it to local time. For开发者_如何转开发 example: read the string "2002-05-01T15:20:15-08:00" and convert it to the local time equivalent.

IFormatProvider culture = new CultureInfo("en-US", true);    
DateTime utcDate = DateTime.Parse("2002-05-01T15:20:15-08:00", culture, DateTimeStyles.AssumeUniversal);

(untested) Taken from here.

You can use the DateTime.ToLocalTime method: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.tolocaltime.aspx

Basically something like: DateTime localTime = utcTime.ToLocalTime();

var result = DateTimeOffset.Parse(myString).ToLocalTime();

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My suggestion would be to use SOA or BPEL. I don't know what they are but I heard they can do everything without even really having to think about the problem or even understanding how the architecture works.