get client time zone from browser
Look at this repository pageloom it is helpful
download jstz.min.js and add a function to your html page
<script language="javascript">
function getTimezoneName() {
timezone = jstz.determine()
return timezone.name();
}
</script>
and call this function from your display tag
Getting the client's time zone (and offset) in JavaScript
Using getTimezoneOffset()
You can get the time zone offset in minutes like this:
var offset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset();
console.log(offset);
// if offset equals -60 then the time zone offset is UTC+01Get timezone from users browser using moment(timezone).js
var timedifference = new Date().getTimezoneOffset();
This returns the difference from the clients timezone from UTC time.
You can then play around with it as you like.
get user timezone
This will get you the timezone as a PHP variable.
I wrote a function using jQuery and PHP. This is tested, and does work!
On the PHP page where you are want to have the timezone as a variable, have this snippet of code somewhere near the top of the page:
<?php
session_start();
$timezone = $_SESSION['time'];
?>
This will read the session variable "time", which we are now about to create.
On the same page, in the <head> section, first of all you need to include jQuery:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
Also in the <head> section, paste this jQuery:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
if("<?php echo $timezone; ?>".length==0){
var visitortime = new Date();
var visitortimezone = "GMT " + -visitortime.getTimezoneOffset()/60;
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "http://example.com/timezone.php",
data: 'time='+ visitortimezone,
success: function(){
location.reload();
}
});
}
});
</script>
You may or may not have noticed, but you need to change the url to your actual domain.
One last thing. You are probably wondering what the heck timezone.php is. Well, it is simply this:
(create a new file called timezone.php and point to it with the above url)
<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['time'] = $_GET['time'];
?>
If this works correctly, it will first load the page, execute the JavaScript, and reload the page. You will then be able to read the $timezone variable and use it to your pleasure! It returns the current UTC/GMT time zone offset (GMT -7) or whatever timezone you are in.
You can read more about this on my blog
How to detect user's timezone?
To summarize Matt Johnson's answer in terms of code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jstimezonedetect/1.0.4/jstz.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var tz = jstz.determine(); // Determines the time zone of the browser client
var timezone = tz.name(); //For e.g.:"Asia/Kolkata" for the Indian Time.
$.post("url-to-function-that-handles-time-zone", {tz: timezone}, function(data) {
//Preocess the timezone in the controller function and get
//the confirmation value here. On success, refresh the page.
});
});
</script>
How to guess user's timezone using date-fns?
To get the user's IANA time zone identifier, most modern browsers now support the following:
Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone
That said, the usual reason you would need to use formatToTimeZone from date-fns-timezone is when you need to use a different time zone other than the user's local zone. Otherwise, you can usually just use the format function from date-fns.
However, in your case, you are also trying to use the z format specifier to display the user's time zone abbreviation. This isn't provided by date-fns directly, so if that is critical then you will indeed need to get the user's time zone with the Intl api shown above and use formatToTimeZone.
Do keep in mind though that these abbreviations are whatever the IANA data has recorded, which are in English only, and it doesn't have abbreviations for every time zone. For those that don't, you will see a numeric value instead, such as -02.
Also, many abbreviations can be ambiguous (such as the I in IST possibly meaning India, Israel, or Ireland, and many others...). Thus, in most cases, if you don't need the abbreviation, you're often better off without it.
Moment.js - how to get user time zone?
Ok I found an answer, all that we need is just get current utcOffset from momentjs library:
const currentUtcOffset = moment().utcOffset()
and pass it to utc method
moment(date).utc(currentUtcOffset).toISOString()
Now everything works perfect.
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