On Jul 4, 1:48 am, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rohit wrote: > > I am trying to get client machine's timezone from my java script . But > > This is off topic. > > Do you mean EcmaScript + old Netscape DOM, or do you mean Java. I'm > pretty certain that the former cannot provide the necessary information > without calling out to native objects, and I'm not sure that latter can. > > > i have no idea how would i be able to get it in uclibc format. (e.g. > > GMT+0IST-1,M3.5.0/01:00:00,M10.5.0/02:00:00) . I saw couple of posting > > Whether you can even do this, and if so whether the result will be valid > beyond the Autumn, depends on your operating system and country. >
Will you elaborate bit more on this. > > on net which suggest getTimezoneoffset or may be calculation with > > dates from script gives correct offset including day light saving > > time but i am not sure how correct this is. Again even if its > > correct , its not telling me when (exact date and time )day light > > saving adjustment starts and ends which is last part of /etc/TZ > > string, Is there a way to get this from java script. > > I'm having difficulty thinking of a real world reason why you would want > to do this. All the uses I can think of involve shelling out. > > Note that this format is a legacy format, and the average Linux system > (you posted from Linux) has a richer description of the rules. Yeah but this is on embedded system which still uses that legacy format. Rohit _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
