Check whether daylight savings is on or off

Question

In a scenario, I have to check whether daylight savings is in effect or not. Based on the outcome of the check, I have to do some calculations in a SQL server procedure.

What is the best way to quickly check if daylight savings is currently in effect?

Answer 1

I used this Daylight Savings Time Functions in SQL Server that is created by Tim Cullen.

Specifically, the code that I used was:

Start Date Function

CREATE function [dbo].[fn_GetDaylightSavingsTimeStart]
(@Year varchar(4))
RETURNS smalldatetime
as
begin
declare @DTSStartWeek smalldatetime, @DTSEndWeek smalldatetime
set @DTSStartWeek = '03/01/' + convert(varchar,@Year)
return case datepart(dw,@DTSStartWeek)
when 1 then
dateadd(hour,170,@DTSStartWeek)
when 2 then
dateadd(hour,314,@DTSStartWeek)
when 3 then 
dateadd(hour,290,@DTSStartWeek)
when 4 then 
dateadd(hour,266,@DTSStartWeek)
when 5 then 
dateadd(hour,242,@DTSStartWeek)
when 6 then 
dateadd(hour,218,@DTSStartWeek)
when 7 then
dateadd(hour,194,@DTSStartWeek)
end
end

End Date Function

CREATE function [dbo].[fn_GetDaylightSavingsTimeEnd]
(@Year varchar(4))
RETURNS smalldatetime
as
begin
declare @DTSEndWeek smalldatetime
set @DTSEndWeek = '11/01/' + convert(varchar,@Year)
return case datepart(dw,dateadd(week,1,@DTSEndWeek))
when 1 then
dateadd(hour,2,@DTSEndWeek)
when 2 then
dateadd(hour,146,@DTSEndWeek)
when 3 then
dateadd(hour,122,@DTSEndWeek)
when 4 then
dateadd(hour,98,@DTSEndWeek)
when 5 then 
dateadd(hour,74,@DTSEndWeek)
when 6 then 
dateadd(hour,50,@DTSEndWeek)
when 7 then 
dateadd(hour,26,@DTSEndWeek)
end
end

I then use the functions like this in my query:

declare @DLSStart smalldatetime 
, @DLSEnd smalldatetime 
, @DLSActive tinyint 
set @DLSStart = (select MSSQLTIPS.dbo.fn_GetDaylightSavingsTimeStart(convert(varchar,datepart(year,getdate()))))
set @DLSEnd = (select MSSQLTIPS.dbo.fn_GetDaylightSavingsTimeEnd(convert(varchar,datepart(year,getdate())))) 

if @Date between @DLSStart and @DLSEnd 
begin 
set @DLSActive = 1 
end 
else 
begin 
set @DLSActive = 0 
end 
select @DLSActive