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[pizzaboy]

Hi, does anyone know whether the Javascript Date object is based on the Server time or the Users' Client time?

I'm using the following code to set the time:
var dateObject = new Date()

Basically, I have a few upcoming events occurring on particular dates at set times, which I would like to inform my visitors about. The times are scheduled in GMT, but I would like to display the time according to the user's location and therefore their pc...

I'm aware there is a dateObject.getTimezoneOffset() method I could use, but how can I integrate it? Ideally I would also like to pop-up an alarm, is there any easy way I can utilise the .getTimezoneOffset() method to add/subtract the hours without having to mess about with the actual date?

Thanks for listening (and hopefully for any help)...

[rc69]

I'm no date expert in JavaScript. But i do know 1 thing. It's a CLIENT side language, with out some feature like AJAX, it can't get the server's time (as far as i know).

So in short, Date object = client's time.

And that TimeZoneOffset thingy should do the trick, but i know nothing about it, try googling it.