DateTime.Now vs. DateTime.UtcNow

I was modifying customer support site today, and one of the change is to have NZ time displayed with sun/moon image. This may seem to be a useless thing to do since anyone has the browser would have the time showing on the right bottom corner of their screen (or right top if using mac). But if you have SMS linked to support site, you definitely don’t want to receive message in the middle of the night.

Anyway, I never realize there’s a UtcNow function, basically it’s the standard international time that all time zones are expressed as offsets of, it’s not offset to daylight saving. There’s also a getutcdate() in SQL Server verses getdate()