I want to output the users system timezone, e.g. “EST”. How can I do that, preferably using Javascript, though I could do it on the PHP side as well, if that’s significantly easier.
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I want to output the users system timezone, e.g. “EST”. How can I do that, preferably using Javascript, though I could do it on the PHP side as well, if that’s significantly easier.
You will have to use Javascript – since you do not know the client timezone on the server side. You could use the code below and extract the relevant timezone string from localtime.
which will return something like “12:21:44 GMT-0400 (EDT)”