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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1251070" data-attributes="member: 71075">Take a look <a href="http://www.onlineaspect.com/2007/06/08/auto-detect-a-time-zone-with-javascript/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article/convert-the-local-time-to-another-time-zone-with-this-javascript/6016329" target="_blank">here</a>. My suggestion would be to set the clock according to their time zone and then using that, figure out how far their TZ is from yours and set the clock accordingly.In other words, let's say I'm in the eastern time zone and you're in the pacific time zone (three hours behind the eastern one). I view the page and the JS figures out that I'm in the eastern time zone. The script then calculates how far back/ahead I am from yours and figures out that I'm three hours ahead. The script then creates a second hour hand that is three hours behind (this would be your time).I'm not a JS expert so that may sound like a daft solution but it's a start.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1251070, member: 71075"] Take a look [URL="http://www.onlineaspect.com/2007/06/08/auto-detect-a-time-zone-with-javascript/"]here[/URL] and [URL="http://www.techrepublic.com/article/convert-the-local-time-to-another-time-zone-with-this-javascript/6016329"]here[/URL]. My suggestion would be to set the clock according to their time zone and then using that, figure out how far their TZ is from yours and set the clock accordingly. In other words, let's say I'm in the eastern time zone and you're in the pacific time zone (three hours behind the eastern one). I view the page and the JS figures out that I'm in the eastern time zone. The script then calculates how far back/ahead I am from yours and figures out that I'm three hours ahead. The script then creates a second hour hand that is three hours behind (this would be your time). I'm not a JS expert so that may sound like a daft solution but it's a start. [/QUOTE]

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