Localized time -- Is there any way I can get the users's time zone?

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm trying to avoid making my users enter a time zone in order to have posts and updates displayed in their time. Is there *any* way I can figure out what the user's current time is so I can add/subtract all the times I'm outputting accordingly?

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You can use JavaScript to pull their timezone information when they first hit your site. If they're logging in, then you could just set a hidden form field. If there's no logging in, then you could use a remote form call.

Steve

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take a look at this (one of the more entertainign README's of this or any time)

http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/plugins/tztime/README