Formatting the time for the client machine location?

[sjf]

How do you format the time and date so it is relevant to the client machine not just the server?
sjf

 

[froggerIII]

do you mean, converting a date you are using with asp to client side vbscript or javascript? ray
rheindl@bju.edu

 

[sjf]

Sorry, I should be more specific, I mean taking the time from a server located in the US Pacific Time Zone and translating it so the time that is displayed is the time that is relevant to where the web site is about, in this case Eastern Standard Australian Time.

Any ideas?
sjf

 

[palbano]

sjf,

The Javascript Date object has a getTimeZoneOffset method that returns the difference in minutes between UTC and the host computer. You could use that in a client (browser) side script and pass it to the server code where you could use it again to find the variance from UTC on the server and the calculate the two to obtain the relative difference and the adjust a date value to match that of the client computer.

Of course I have not done it so maybe I'm wrong.

Good luck
-pete