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Asked: 2026-05-11T21:16:11+00:00

I have this web service… It serves up HTML in response to an AJAX

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I have this web service… It serves up HTML in response to an AJAX request, and the web service needs to be aware of:

  1. the user’s specific language
  2. the user’s timezone or location

I understand that this is currently quite infeasible. BUT…

It seems that HTML 5 will have a Geolocation API! Awesome. This should take care of my timezone requirement (I can just look it up in a database somehow).

However, I would also like to know how to get their culture settings (“en-US”, etc.) so I can render DateTimes and numbers from my web service to their specific preferences.

Note: this is a follow-up question to my other question: Finding the client’s timezone and culture

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is in the HTTP header now – http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.4 – every language has a way to get this information. Which language is your web service implemented in?

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