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Topic: Time Offset

Posted By: seanlail
Subject: Time Offset
Date Posted: 06 December 2005 at 4:11pm

Hi all,

I am having a weird issue.

In the "Forum Preferences" (register.asp) there is a present server date and time and the user has the ability to offset this to his local time.

My problem is:

No matter where in the world my users are... they all see that the server time is exactly the same as theirs...

How can this be???

Replies:

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 07 December 2005 at 4:38am

Because the time is that of the web server, which remains in the same place ni matter where the user is who connects to the server.

In ASP there is noway to get UNC or GMT time, so the only place to get the time from is the web server. The time on the web server remains the same no matter where the user connects to the server from.

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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 07 December 2005 at 5:44pm

You can use JScript to get the time in GMT.


<script runat="server" language="jscript">

     function getGMTTime()

     {        

     var d, s;

     d = new Date();

     s = d.toUTCString(); 

     return(s); 

     }

</script>

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 December 2005 at 9:41am

Yes, but the forum uses VbScript not JScript

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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 08 December 2005 at 11:00pm

However, your statement was

In ASP there is noway to get UNC or GMT time

which is patently untrue.

Any ASP page can use both JScript and VBScript. If you use VBScript as your main language you just have to use the synatax sbove outside your script delimiters and you should be able to call the JScript function from within your application.

I use VBScript and this is what I use when I need the time in GMT. If you check out www.warmageddon.com you'll see that it displays the time in GMT (at the bottom of the page). That site is written in VBScript except for this one function.

The time in GMT can also be called via MSSQL by using the getUTCdate() function but that doesn't work in Access.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 6:48am

OK, I'll give it a go

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