Detect If Daylight Savings Enabled

[JustinK101]

I need a way to detect if a user is currently on daylight savings time. Is this more of a javascript question?

[ratcateme]

a quick google says it is not possiable with PHP and gave me this javascript

<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('timezone').value = new Date().getTimeZoneOffset(); // this should all be in one line
</script>

 

Scott.

[JustinK101]

That built in JS function I guess has issues. FYI to others, this guy wrote a nice script, which works through-out the world.

 

http://onlineaspect.com/2007/06/08/auto-detect-a-time-zone-with-javascript/#comment-233

[cooldude832]

php can do it

 

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

 

Look at the "I"  parameter for the date function

[PFMaBiSmAd]

date() uses the server's time and time zone setting, not the user's time.

[cooldude832]

didn't see the user part.

 

Php can't do much about the user since it compiles everything server side and Prehypertext processing

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The script at that link will detect the timezone, but assuming you want that information on the server (you did ask in a php forum), it still needs to be sent to the server. You can use a modified version of the code at this link to get any information available in the browser to a php script on the server - http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.javascript-variable