Is there anyway to get a System.TimeZone given the name of the time zone?
There's no constructor or static method on TimeZone that does this.

No. The TimeZone implementation in .NET is very lacking.

-c

Windows and .NET only support one current, systemwide timezone.

Informations for other time zones are saved in the registry:
  http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=%23Vef0WmJCHA.1924%40tkmsftngp09

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Then it's a good thing .NET is an OS-independent framework and there's no
reason it should be restricted to exposing Windows functionality.  Being
able to parse a time like

    12:35 PDT

and convert it either to the current time zone or to UTC is extremely
useful.  Java can do this, and J# is documented as being able to
(java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone for both).  Hopefully support will be added
to .NET proper before long.

Thanks for the link.

It's not so difficult to implement a time zone. Basically you have to
inhirit from TimeZone which is abstract and provides nearly all needed
(protected) methods for calculation.
If you want an example, check the rotor library, the currentTimezone class
does this.
As source of timezone information you can use the info of the registry (the
tzi struct)