Adrian Klaver-3 wrote
> Welcome to the wacky world of time, it is all relative:) The choices are
> handle everything as UTC until you present to the end user or use actual
> timezones, for example, America/Los_Angeles. To illustrate, in your
> original post you said:
>
> "But it would be easier to ask a specific time offset (got from a client
> around the world), so for me +01 hour"
>
> Do you know if that offset supplied by the client was POSIX or ISO in
> its sign?
The (playing) question was: how would I get the time zone of a browser
somewhere unknown on earth?
And the found javascript solution would return the difference between GMT
and localtime in minutes, so for me west from Greenwich a negative integer.
Please save the following in a html file eg. "time_offset.html" and load it
in your browser:
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