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How to get the time & date in a different City
I have a server in the US, in Texas. I have a website on there that operates primarly in the Australian market. I don't want to change the server time on the box itself (as other things run on there). What's a good piece of code that will tell me the date & time in proper format in a given timezone (Sydney, Australia) which also takes into account DST on both the host box and in the timezone I'm finding?
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I always do #timeFormat(dateAdd('h', 1, now()), 'hh:mm tt')# the '1' would be the hours offest from where you are.
For example. I am on the east coast and have to use this all the time because my server is in the mid west which is an hour behind.
I personally like setting a variable like <cfset currentTime = timeFormat(dateAdd('h', 1, now()), 'hh:mm tt')>
Judson
For example. I am on the east coast and have to use this all the time because my server is in the mid west which is an hour behind.
I personally like setting a variable like <cfset currentTime = timeFormat(dateAdd('h', 1, now()), 'hh:mm tt')>
Judson
You can get the Client time only from browser by JavaScript.
Therefore you can fetch that value first AFTER browser page submit.
I wouls suggest to place that client side value into a Cookie.
Like this:
Therefore you can fetch that value first AFTER browser page submit.
I wouls suggest to place that client side value into a Cookie.
Like this:
<cfset tzOffset=0 >
<cfif isDefined("cookie.tzOffset") >
<cfset tzOffset=cookie.tzOffset>
</cfif>
<cfoutput>
ServerTime: #Now()#<br>
ClientTime: #DateAdd("n",tzOffset,Now())#
</cfoutput>
<script>document.cookie="tzOffset="+(new Date()).getTimezoneOffset()+";path=/;";</script>
If you need that tzOffset on multipole pages then is placing the line 9 from above into application.cfm/cfc perhaps the better choice.
Or even the complete client time calculation as demonstrated above.
Or even the complete client time calculation as demonstrated above.
If you need to get the time based on certain events happening you may need to use scripting. Coldfusion will only generate it on inital page load or a submission
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Wow. My solution just more variablized I guess, but the cookie wouldn't work in some cases.
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