Timestamp from the web browser?

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How can I determine a web user's time zone?
How do you get a timestamp in JavaScript?

I would like to get the timestamp from my user web browser.

Example: If now a user comes to my website from USA and another comes from Spain, I would like to save the respective time and date that it is now in USA and Spain.

timestamp should be identical.... timezone is just an offset of that... — jondavidjohn, Mar 09 '12 at 21:19
This might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13/how-can-i-determine-a-web-users-time-zone — LeonardChallis, Mar 09 '12 at 21:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '12 at 21:37

Getting the time with JavaCcript returns the current user's machine time.

The following JavaScript code will return the number of milliseconds since midnight Jan 1, 1970.

var timestamp = new Date().getTime();

Now just grab the timestamp variable and send it back to your webserver, if that's where you want to save this information. The easiest unobtrusive way I can think of to do this is by using ajax to POST the time information back to your server, for example (using jQuery):

$.post("saveusertime.php", { time: timestamp} );

Sources

JavaScript's Date Object: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp

jQuery's post() function: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.post/

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 09 '12 at 21:19

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Just use new Date().toString();

answered Mar 09 '12 at 21:19

Justice Erolin

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