Re: Time AT TIME ZONE: false result using offset instead of time zone name

Adrian Klaver-3 wrote
> Welcome to the wacky world of time, it is all relative:) The choices are 
> handle everything as UTC until you present to the end user or use actual 
> timezones, for example, America/Los_Angeles. To illustrate, in your 
> original post you said:
> 
> "But it would be easier to ask a specific time offset (got from a client
> around the world), so for me +01 hour"
> 
> Do you know if that offset supplied by the client was POSIX or ISO in 
> its sign?

The (playing) question was: how would I get the time zone of a browser
somewhere unknown on earth?

And the found javascript solution would return the difference between GMT
and localtime in minutes, so for me west from Greenwich a negative integer.

Please save the following in a html file eg. "time_offset.html" and load it
in your browser:





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