Determine a User's Time Zone on Signup

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Post by jonmccartie » Thu, Oct 23, 2014, 2:12 PM UTC

Determine a User's Time Zone on Signup
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Re: Determine a User's Time Zone on Signup

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Post by NicoJuicy » Thu, Oct 23, 2014, 2:22 PM UTC

Just a small note i'd like to contribute, always save dates in UTC format and transform it on the client side (js for example)

It helps a lot when you're building a globalized application.

Re: Determine a User's Time Zone on Signup

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Post by jonmccartie » Thu, Oct 23, 2014, 3:28 PM UTC

NicoJuicy wrote: post #2

Just a small note i'd like to contribute, always save dates in UTC format and transform it on the client side (js for example) It helps a lot when you're building a globalized application.

Yup. UTC dates are stored system wide. This post is just about determine the user's time zone. This has been helpful for various situations for us: for example, knowing the best time to send out a daily email to a user based on their TZ.