RE: [PHP] output Today's date

> 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