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Timezone in HTTP Header

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

http://mces.blogspot.com/2008/10/timezone-in-http-header.html asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb: Web services are used from all over the globe. How is it that the HTTP request does not include the timezone the request is coming from? Context: A few years ago I wrote a multi-system calendar widget in PHP, called Behdad Calendar . It has many Iranians users in and out of Iran. Since the service is run on my web server somewhere in the western world, most Iranians in Iran see the date wrong for about one-third of the day. My first response to this was “cool, I just need to adjust to the user’s timezone which I can easily find somewhere in the HTTP request”. Then I failed to find that. Then I noticed the stupid

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