Question

I’ve an ASP.NET MVC blog, in order to show the posts and comments dates in client timezone a cookie is used, the cookie contains the client timezone offset. When the server receives a request it will read the offset value from cookie and changes all the dates accordingly before sending to browser. My question how I can store the cookie in a global variable on every request so that it can be accessed by any where for date adjustment.

Answer 1

You can use a session variable if you don’t want to use the cookie every time

session["MyVarName"] = mycookievalue

then you can access the session every time needed.

You can also think of implementing e custom modelbinder so you can bind your session’s value to a model. (for example a class UserSettingsModel)