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title: "Different between DateTime.Now and DateTime.UTCNow;"  
description: "Different between DateTime.Now and DateTime.UTCNow;"  
author: "AVADHESH PATEL"  
published: 2013-04-01  
updated: 2020-09-23  
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# Different between DateTime.Now and DateTime.UTCNow;

DateTime.UtcNow tells you the date and time as it would be in Coordinated Universal Time, which is also called the Greenwich Mean Time time zone

DateTime.Now gives the date and time as it would appear to someone in your current locale.

## Answers

### Answer by AVADHESH PATEL

DateTime.UtcNow tells you the date and time as it would be in Coordinated Universal Time, which is also called the Greenwich Mean Time time zone

DateTime.Now gives the date and time as it would appear to someone in your current locale.


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