On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Baiss Eric Magnusson wrote: I've been gathering this response, but Ken has been so helpful and right on with his comments that I thought I should reply. I have work to do. I will have to create the UI to get the timezone, store the timezone in the database, and use it in the various date displays. Other comments below.
Thanks. One thing you might consider is using this _javascript_:
var msie = navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE"); var now = new Date(); var clientTimeZoneOffset = now.getTimezoneOffset(); // = what browser thinks is TZ; but // MS IE version 3 gives wrong sign of TZ // MSIE 4.0b2 shifts TZ by -1 hour // Any other problems?
if (clientTimeZoneOffset) { if (msie > -1) { if (navigator.userAgent.substring(msie+5,msie+6) <= 3) { clientTimeZoneOffset *= -1; } else { if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("4.0b2") > -1) { clientTimeZoneOffset += 60; } } } document.write('<input type="hidden" name="x-clientTimeZoneOffset" value="' + clientTimeZoneOffset * 60 * -1 + '" />'); }
It creates a header that specifies the timezone as the client machine sees it. I drop this _javascript_ into a WO component that grabs the timezone from the header and sets it in the user's session.
Ken |