> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 07:01:55PM -0700, Paul Goepfert wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > ls there anyway I can set the date to the timezone of the clients 
> > timezone?  For example, if a person opens the web page at 3/6 12:01 
> > EST and another person opens the same page at 3/5 10:01 MST I would 
> > like the date to be the above days on the client computers.  I know 
> > everyone knows this but the way I described this the two people 
> > accessed the webpage at the same time but I want the 
> correct date for 
> > the client computer to be outputted.
> 
> There are some tools that you can detect where the person is 
> located and and you would be able to use the timezone from 
> that information. One site I found from a quick google search:
> 
>  http://www.ip2location.com/
> 
> 
> The cheapest and simpliest method would be to use some 
> javascript to detect the timezone. Or let the user specify 
> which one he wants to use.

Hi,

Javascripts' Date object has a getTimezoneOffset() method, which returns the 
difference between local time and universal time in
minutes.

Jared

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