Re: Time Zone Variables
| From: | techzeus at pacific dot net dot sg | Date: | Fri, 01 Dec 2000 09:23:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Time Zone Variables | ||
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How do you think I can go about doing that?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Lynch" <richard@zend.com>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Time Zone Variables
> Not really.
>
> The browser does not, by default tell the web-server what their time-zone
or
> anything like that is.
>
> You can use Javascript on a preceding page to send the current time on
their
> computer's clock, and if you are willing to rely on (A) Javascript and (B)
> user's clocks, it can work for most users, but not all.
>
> Some sites ask you your time zone when you register, and store that -- Of
> course, if the person travels, that's rather useless.
>
> You might be best off just showing everything in GMT and let the user deal
> with it. Mucking with time zones is generally far more trouble than it
> looks like at first.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <techzeus@pacific.net.sg>
> Newsgroups: php.general
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 3:43 AM
> Subject: [PHP] Time Zone Variables
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> Is there a variable that can determine the user's timezone?
>
> I want to make a script to convert news postings to the person's time in
> that timezone.
>
>
> David Chua,
> CEO, Frozened.com
> PAGN.NET
>
>
>
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