Getting user's time from web revlet?

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Thu Jan 21 10:11:21 EST 2010


On 21.01.10 at 21:56 +0900 Tim Selander apparently wrote:
>Hi Mark - yep, that is exactly what I want to do, but haven't 
>figured out how yet. I have learned how to get the user's local time 
>via javascript, but don't know how to pass it to the revlet 
>(actually, it seems I have my terms wrong, typical for a newbie... 
>I'm trying to script this all in an .irev file on my on-rev account.)
>
>Someone mentioned cookies, which seems like a logical method -- now 
>to learn how to make and read cookies!
>
>Tim Selander
>Tokyo, Japan

Are your family members login in in any way? Presumably there is some 
access protection. If so, time zone could be part of the user account 
data. You would not care then what time user computer has (and 
whether it is set correctly).

Robert



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