Question

I am working on a project where I need to be able to get GMT time using Jquery and post it into a MYSQL DB through PHP. Then I need to get the local time factor of the user and save it into the db. After that using JS/JQuery convert GMT to the users local time. I was hoping someone could give me a code example if possible. I really appreciate you time, thanks!

Answer 1

Without having the user manualy select their timezone, one approach is to use the javascript date object to collect infomration about the users local time, and use it in a subsequent request

var timestamp = new Date();
document.getElementById('timestamp_target').value = timestamp.getTimezoneOffset();

I’m in Australia at +10 GMT, and the value returned by getTimezoneOffset is -600 minutes