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I need to get the user’s browser Timezone. As this is an application using Angularjs, I decided to use the angular-Moment However I did not succeed in getting the name of Timezone.
What I need is a way in Angularjs to get something like : 'America/Sao_paulo', 'Europa/Paris'
I thought about using the library Moment-Timezone.js but I could not add it as dependency in the angular, to use in the controller.
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I was able to solve it this way:
I added the lib JSTZ
<script src="js/jstz.min.js"></script>
In the file the controler includes the following code:
/* jstz*/
(function () {
'use strict';
....
})();
By adding JSTZ at the beginning of the file, I was able to gain access to library functions. So within the controller I executed the following excerpt:
var timezone = jstz.determine();
console.log(timezone.name());
Whose output was : "America/Sao_paulo"
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If you want the Browser Timezone formatted you can count on the Javascript method (since Angularjs is just a framework to work with it) Date.toString and do:
var split = new Date().toString().split(" ");
var timeZoneFormatted = split[split.length - 2] + " " + split[split.length - 1];
This will return you "GMT-0400 (EST)" for example, including the time zone minutes when applicable.
Alternatively, with regex you can extract any desired part:
For "GMT-0300 (EDT)" :
new Date().toString().match(/([A-Z]+[\+-][0-9]+.*)/)[1]
To "GMT-0300" :
new Date().toString().match(/([A-Z]+[\+-][0-9]+)/)[1]
Only "EDT" :
new Date().toString().match(/\(([A-Za-z\s].*)\)/)[1]
Only "-0300":
new Date().toString().match(/([-\+][0-9]+)\s/)[1]
Date.toString reference:
Reference of Date.toString:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toString
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In addition to Moment you will need the Timezone Moment for this. http://momentjs.com/timezone/docs/#/using-timezones/guessing-user-Timezone/
– Guilherme Meireles