Re: How to show proper time to users from around the world

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Since there are always many ways to do things here's one id like to
see how well it worked. It would be getting the IP address of the user
and matching it against an IP address locator. Since ive seen these to
be accurate to what timezone people are in.

Olafur W

2007/8/30, Hemanth <mvhemanth@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Its ok if I can display just the time set in their computers
> wherever they are and even if they are travelling.
>
> anyway thats as far as anyone can get short of asking them for the time
>
> Is there some simple way
>
> I have collected various ideas and snippets searching google
> trying to piece them all together
>
>
>
> On 8/30/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, August 29, 2007 2:24 am, Hemanth wrote:
> > > Is there a solution to showing the proper time and date at user
> > > browsers
> > > and also recording proper USER times in the database operations in
> > > mysql
> >
> > Not really.
> >
> > You can use Javascript to get what the user's clock SAYS is the
> > date/time, but WAY too many users have their clocks set wrong, and
> > you'll never fix that.
> >
> > You can ask them where they live, or ask them to input their own
> > time-zone.
> >
> > Traveling users may prefer to use UTC or something as well, rather
> > than try to figure out what time-zone they are in this minute (cough
> > Indiana cough).
> >
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