GMT Time instead of Server Time

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Hi,

Currently i'm taking Server time as default in an application. Now if i launch the application in any other country, by specifying the country name, i want to send back that particular country's GMT time , instead of server moment country's time.

Kindly anybody give the code.

Regards,
R.Santhya

I have already tried, that i can able to take the server time and current country GMT time by using the zone time, as well as i have tried that, i can able get Central European Time, and Eastern European Time. If i want to try for particular country name by as zoneid , i cant to do so.

string zoneId = "Central European Standard Time";
TimeZoneInfo tzi = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById(zoneId);

Posted 26-Apr-11 18:44pm

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Updated 26-Apr-11 19:53pm

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Sandeep Mewara · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26T18:53:00

Kindly anybody give the code.
Avoid this please! We expect you to try, make some effort and then post where you get stuck. Asking for code would not help anyone! :doh:

i want to send back that particular country's GMT time , instead of server moment country's time.
It's a Web application. People from any country would be connecting to a webserver sitting somewhere else. if you want particular time GMT, you have to trace the country and make changes to the response while returning the time. Or use some ActiveX/JavaScript to get the time from the client system and use it. It would entirely depend on type of scenario/requirement you have. Generally, it's picked from client machine and displayed. Server does not do anything.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26T18:56:00

Solution 2

Hope my recent answer to a similar Question will help you to understand all this:
[Solved] XML Date Time Conversion Issue[^].

[EDIT]

My other recent answers shows how to list the time zones:
GMT Time using particular country name[^].

You can generate a list of zones at the server, present it to the user and ask the user to create an account and select one of the time zones. Make it mandatory by server-side validation, don't allow for default zone. In this way, you will be able to do time calculations depending on the account's time zone data.

—SA

Posted 26-Apr-11 18:56pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 27-Apr-11 5:18am

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Sandeep Mewara 27-Apr-11 1:00am

5! :)
It would make him more clear now on what I was talking of. Zones are the things on which it would be dependent. And client machine his best bet to get time time on every system for a web-app.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Apr-11 1:26am

Thank you, Sandeep.
I was just thinking if a time zone info could be sent to server during each authentication, automatically (without asking a user for explicit specification of it during account registration; for example, CodeProjects asks for the zip code for future geolocation, which is not applicable to all countries).

Is it possible, how do you think?
--SA

Sandeep Mewara 27-Apr-11 1:31am

If user does not provide his timezone/county info or the app does not extracts the time from client system(using ActiveX), it would be difficult to give client/user system based timing.

Issue/hurdle is to find the client system timezone and pass it on to server.

What do you say. Sounds right?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Apr-11 3:22am

Sound right, thank you. I simply don't know such way at the moment and not sure such way can be portable.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Apr-11 3:32am

See also my update about the time zone (after [EDIT]) and my comment about UCT.
Does it make sense?
--SA

Michel [mjbohn] 27-Apr-11 1:37am

I think that's the problem. I don't know any way to get this information sent automatically. Would be nice if browsers would do so. I guess the only way is using users meta data like zip code or even better TZ (if he knows his TZ ).
BTW: Isn't it late at night at your TZ ;) ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Apr-11 3:26am

You see, this looks problematic (see my discussion with Sandeep above). So (and according to my past answer I referenced) you can ask your customer to create and account. One field of the account form should ask about time zone (make no default, make it mandatory by server-side validation).
Wait a minute, I'll give you the reference to the time zone code...

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Apr-11 3:31am

...OK, I updated my Solution (after [EDIT]). You really need to do that to present the time by user's clock. In principle you can always work in Universal Coordinated Time.
--SA