Re: [Flashcoders] Get Timezone City?

2012-05-20 Thread David Hunter
Thanks for the ideas guys, i'll see what the client says about any of these work arounds... On 17 May 2012 13:16, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: You could always prompt your user to enter their city if your needing specifics. Getting the city from the time zone is a bit general.

Re: [Flashcoders] Get Timezone City?

2012-05-17 Thread David Hunter
Thanks Karl, I can grab the time using the Date class in AS3, I'm more stuck on how to detect what city they have set in their system preferences or some other way to detect what city they are in. IP address? Thanks, David On 17 May 2012 00:37, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote:

RE: [Flashcoders] Get Timezone City?

2012-05-17 Thread Karina Steffens
of Geo-IP database service for this. Karina -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: 17 May 2012 10:31 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Get Timezone City? Thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] Get Timezone City?

2012-05-17 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
That's what this code does. Gets the timezone like CST or America/Chicago for example based on local settings. Or is that not what your wanting? Best, Karl On May 17, 2012, at 4:30 AM, David Hunter wrote: Thanks Karl, I can grab the time using the Date class in AS3, I'm more stuck on

Re: [Flashcoders] Get Timezone City?

2012-05-17 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
You could always prompt your user to enter their city if your needing specifics. Getting the city from the time zone is a bit general. Getting the city by ip can also get a little misleading since ips can be spoofed or you could end up getting their ISPs ip or if it's a virtual machine. But

[Flashcoders] Get Timezone City?

2012-05-16 Thread David Hunter
Hi All, I'm making a screensaver / air app of a clock and one of the desired features is to grab the city of the timezone that the computer is set to. For example my clock is set to GMT and London, but I could set it to Eastern Daylight Time and the city to New York or Miami. Does anyone know if

Re: [Flashcoders] Get Timezone City?

2012-05-16 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
You could use PHPs date function. http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_date.asp ?php $timezone = date('T'); ? or ?php $timezone = date('e'); ? Then flashvars it into your flash clock. Just a thought. Best, Karl On May 16, 2012, at 5:20 PM,