Countdown timer for different timezones

[Dirk Hagemann]

Hi!

I'd like to implement a countdown timer on a webite. It should show the
months, days, hours, minutes and seconds until a given date and time.
So far it's not really difficult, but this website will be used from
different time zones, what will make a difference of 10 hours, if I use
the time-information from the client. The event will take place at one
fixed moment which is worldwide the same.

Does anyone know a way to solve this time-zone-problem?

Regards and thanks for your ideas
Dirk

 

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

I'd like to implement a countdown timer on a webite. It should show the
months, days, hours, minutes and seconds until a given date and time.
So far it's not really difficult, but this website will be used from
different time zones, what will make a difference of 10 hours, if I use
the time-information from the client. The event will take place at one
fixed moment which is worldwide the same.

Does anyone know a way to solve this time-zone-problem?

I don't think there's a reliable way to get the time zone information from
the viewer of the website with just HTTP. So you need a JavaScript
solution I guess. Send the end time as UTC time to the browser an use
JavaScript's `Date` object to display the countdown in local time.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch