Hi David, The IP address could work if your Air has access to that. I don't know much about it, but for a web project I worked on a few years ago, the SEO people used the IP to determine the user's country and redirect according to that (Ireland or US site). I think they were using some kind of Geo-IP database service for this.
Karina -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: 17 May 2012 10:31 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Get Timezone City? Thanks Karl, I can grab the time using the Date class in AS3, I'm more stuck on how to detect what city they have set in their system preferences or some other way to detect what city they are in. IP address? Thanks, David On 17 May 2012 00:37, Karl DeSaulniers <[email protected]> wrote: > You could use PHPs date function. > > http://us.php.net/manual/en/**function.date.php<http://us.php.net/manu > al/en/function.date.php> > http://www.w3schools.com/php/**func_date_date.asp<http://www.w3schools > .com/php/func_date_date.asp> > > <?php > $timezone = date('T'); > ?> > > or > > <?php > $timezone = date('e'); > ?> > > Then flashvars it into your flash clock. > Just a thought. > > Best, > Karl > > > > On May 16, 2012, at 5:20 PM, David Hunter wrote: > > Hi All, >> >> I'm making a screensaver / air app of a clock and one of the desired >> features is to grab the city of the timezone that the computer is set to. >> For example my clock is set to GMT and London, but I could set it to >> Eastern Daylight Time and the city to New York or Miami. >> >> Does anyone know if it is possible to grab the city selected >> associated with the time of the computer? (I'm on a mac, not sure if >> the setup is the same on a PC...) >> >> Thanks, >> >> David >> >> -- >> David Hunter >> >> www.davidhunterdesign.com >> +44 (0) 7869 104 906 >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> [email protected].**com >> <[email protected]> >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/**mailman/listinfo/flashcoders<http://ch >> attyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders> >> > > Karl DeSaulniers > Design Drumm > http://designdrumm.com > > ______________________________**_________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected].**com > <[email protected]> > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/**mailman/listinfo/flashcoders<http://cha > ttyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders> > -- David Hunter www.davidhunterdesign.com +44 (0) 7869 104 906 _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
