nodejs, how to get client time zone info from its ServerRequest

[Yi]

Hi

Does anyone kown in NodeJS, is there any way, server side script can
retrieve client's time zone information from the ServerRequest object?

thanks

[mscdex]

Not unless the client sends a custom header specifying their current
local time adjusted to GMT. The only other option would be to try and
do a GeoIP lookup on the IP address and determine the time zone based
on the resulting location.

[Yi Tan]

thanks, i'd go for the geoip solution because client has no access to request header. do you know is there any open source implementation for the geoip?

many thanks

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[mscdex]

On Oct 12, 2:58 pm, Yi Tan <yi2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks, i'd go for the geoip solution because client has no access to
> request header. do you know is there any open source implementation for the
> geoip?

Here are a couple that are available on npm:

Native binding: http://search.npmjs.org/#/geoip (connect middleware
that uses this module available here: http://search.npmjs.org/#/connect-geoip)

Pure JavaScript module: http://search.npmjs.org/#/geoip-lite

Here is another native binding: https://github.com/strange/node-geoip

[Yi Tan]

that's really helpful, thanks a lot mate.