Getting timezone of browser

Asked Jun 07 '19 at 03:53

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I am working on a feature that displays the last saved time of a blog post based on the timezone of the user's browser. In Javascript I can use var currentTime = new Date();.

I want to do the same in python. Searching on SO, I found

import time
import datetime
import dateutil

now = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(time.time())
tzlocal = dateutil.tz.tzlocal()
print tzlocal.tzname(now)

from this post. However, it returns 'PDT' instead of my browser timezone which I set to 'EST' which is also what var currentTime = new Date(); returns (EST). What am I missing here?

edited Jun 07 '19 at 03:59

asked Jun 07 '19 at 03:53

tausabao

May I know the Python version you are using.. looking at the `print` statement it should be `2.x` but still want to confirm – anuragal Jun 07 '19 at 04:04
I'm on python version 2.7 – tausabao Jun 07 '19 at 04:07
What this statement gives you - `datetime.now(dateutil.tz.tzlocal()).tzname()` – anuragal Jun 07 '19 at 04:10
You have to do it from the browser's side. for example, output the UTC version from python side and then convert that according to the user's local time using js (on page load). – Himal Jun 07 '19 at 04:33
@anuragal it returns 'PDT' – tausabao Jun 07 '19 at 17:43

Getting timezone of browser

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