timeZone

[stormbind]

I have found objects called localZone and DaylightName but don't know which methods they work with? :/

I'm looking for a means of getting the users time zone only, i.e. PST, UTC, GMT etc. I don't need the offset.

Still looking for the answer on MSDN but if you can reply and save me some time it will be appreciated

Thanks all

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[jemminger]

Date.getTimezoneOffset();



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[stormbind]

That gives the offset as an integer but I don't need it to perform any calculations, I only wish to display the time zone as a string - as in GMT, BST, PST or CET etc.

For JScript .NET it's described here but there's no example of it's usage.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...frlrfsystemtimezoneclassdaylightnametopic.asp

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[jemminger]

JScript.NET is not the same as javascript.


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[stormbind]

Maybe, but it's all parsed by MSIE isn't it?

So why can't it be used? Can vanilla JScript not acquire the name? :/

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[tviman]

IE isn't an interpreter as such and can't distinguish .NET from apples, it can only render what you serve it in a markup language. Yes, you can create scripts in a .NET language, but you still have to wrap them in HTML tags in order for the browser to understand what it's supposed to do.

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[jemminger]

.net is all interpreted server-side.

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[stormbind]

Not according to MSDN :/

> "The .NET Framework is an integral Windows component"

> To provide a consistent object-oriented programming
> environment whether object code is stored and executed
> locally, executed locally but Internet-distributed...

Requirements: MS Windows + MSIE 5.01

The .NET framework includes both Client & Server applications. One example of server-side .NET programming language is ASP.NET and one example of client-side programming language is JScript.NET

And MSIE powers the JScript.NET language, not the server.

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[stormbind]

Maybe this is not well discussed by Microsoft and there are some common misconceptions as a result?

I notice that Visual Studio .NET includes compilers for C++, VBasic and JScript - and they all work! But you cannot compile an .exe/dll from JScript in the Visual Studio GUI... you have to exit and run the compiler from the command line :/

Why would they intentionally make it less convenient for JScript programmers? And why is there so little documentation... very weird.

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