In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dirk Hagemann
wrote:
> I'd like to implement a countdown timer on a webite. It should show the
> months, days, hours, minutes and seconds until a given date and time.
> So far it's not really difficult, but this website will be used from
> different time zones, what will make a difference of 10 hours, if I use
> the time-information from the client. The event will take place at one
> fixed moment which is worldwide the same.
>
> Does anyone know a way to solve this time-zone-problem?
I don't think there's a reliable way to get the time zone information from
the viewer of the website with just HTTP. So you need a JavaScript
solution I guess. Send the end time as UTC time to the browser an use
JavaScript's `Date` object to display the countdown in local time.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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