How to get user timezone using jquery?

Question

I would like to get their timezone with names like 'Asia/Calcutta' or 'Australia/Darwin'

I have php installed on myserver and its time set to 'UTC'

Answer 1

For detecting timezone offset you can use this function:

function get_time_zone_offset( ) {
  var current_date = new Date();
  return parseInt(-current_date.getTimezoneOffset() / 60);
}

Example you can see here