Determine the client time??

[johk02]

As I host my site in the US but live in Australia I was wondering how i best would go about to determine the clients time??

Thanks
jonas

 

[Tobie29]

Are you showing the client the time or is it for your records?

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Coldfusion already has a built-in feature for that:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/5.0/CFML_Reference/Functions170.htm#1109589

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[johk02]

I mainly want to record when someone adds a news item, signup etc.
Currently I am using creatODBCdate().
GUJUm0deL, I had a look at the coldfusion link you attached it looks ok but I thought there where a more staright forward solution. Isn't there a way to just "grab" the time on the client PC??

Jonas

 

[Wullie]

Coldfusion already has a built-in feature for that:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/5.0/CFML_Reference/Functions170.htm#1109589

I might be missing something but how does that return the client's time?

I mainly want to record when someone adds a news item, signup etc.
Currently I am using creatODBCdate().
GUJUm0deL, I had a look at the coldfusion link you attached it looks ok but I thought there where a more staright forward solution. Isn't there a way to just "grab" the time on the client PC??

It isn't as easy as just grabbing the time from the client. What you need to consider is that Coldfusion runs server-side so at the point the code is rendered, there is no client time involved.

The only way I could think of doing this would be to use Javascript to write the time into the form code, then when they submit the form it would be sent over to Coldfusion and you can process it. Someone else here may have a better solution for you though.

Wullie

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[iamkillyou]

I use this function...

http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=989

and compare it the users stored offset time in their session structure, but this requires the user being logged in.