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How to get local system timezone in ActionScript?

I want to find the local system timezone using ActionScript 3, I have tried many ways but unable to get any solution which will give me the actual result like if I will select (UTC -8:00)Pacific Time then the result will come UTC -8:00 or (UTC -8:00)Pacific Time (Results in UTC time zone).

So if anyone know how to achieve this please help me to resolve this issue.

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • You can use the getTimezoneOffset function of the Date object to get an offset from UTC for a particular date. Reference Here.

    Note that this offset may vary depending on the date provided. In the US Pacific Time zone, UTC-8 is used in the winter, and UTC-7 is used in the summer when DST is in effect.

    Note that that API is for an offset only. There is no API in ActionScript that will give you the machine's local time zone ID, such as America/Los_Angeles (IANA) or Pacific Standard Time (Windows). See "Time Zone != Offset" in the timezone tag wiki.