MIT licensed, maintained as: jsTimezoneDetect
Asia/Jakarta
How do I use jsTimezoneDetect?
This script gives you the zone info key representing your device's time zone setting.
The return value is an IANA zone info key (aka the Olson time zone database).
The IANA timezone database is pretty much standard for most platforms (UNIX and Mac support it natively, and every programming language in the world either has native support or well maintained libraries that support it).
Example usage
There is a minified version in the repo called `jstz.min.js`. Include it in your HTML document.
Invoke the script by calling
> var timezone = jstz.determine(); > timezone.name(); "Asia/Jakarta"
Use Case
The script is useful if you do not want to disturb your users with questions about what time zone they are in. You can rely on this script to give you a key that is usable for server side datetime normalisations across time zones.
Limitations
This script does not do geo-location, nor does it care very much about historical time zones.
So if you are unhappy with the time zone "Europe/Berlin" when the user is in fact in "Europe/Stockholm" - this script is not for you. (They are both identical in modern time).
Also, if it is important to you to know that in Europe/Simferopool (Ukraine) the UTC offset before 1924 was +2.67, sorry, this script will not help you.
Time zones are a screwed up thing, generally speaking, and the scope of this script is to solve problems concerning modern time zones, in this case from 2010 and forward.
Bug?
If this script fails to correctly determine your timezone, please report it!
When you report an issue. Please tell me
- what timezone your computer is set to,
- what operating system you use, and
- what browser you use. http://pellepim.bitbucket.org/jstz/
