JavaScript getTimezoneOffset() Method: Date Object
Description
The getTimezoneOffset() method is used to get the difference between local time and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Version
Implemented in JavaScript 1.0
Syntax
getTimezoneOffset()

Example:
The following web document shows the difference in minutes between Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and local time.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>JavaScript date object - getTimezoneOffset() method example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: red">JavaScript date object : getTimezoneOffset() method</h1>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
user_date = new Date()
difftime = user_date.getTimezoneOffset()
document.write(difftime)
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>
View the example in the browser
Supported Browser
Internet Explorer 7 | Firefox 3.6 | Google Chrome 7 | Safari 5.0.1 | Opera 10 |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
See also:
JavaScript Core objects, methods, properties.
Previous: JavaScript getTime() Method: Date Object
Next: JavaScript getUTCdate() Method: Date Object
Test your Programming skills with w3resource's quiz.
JavaScript: Tips of the Day
Parse an HTTP Cookie header string and return an object of all cookie name-value pairs
Example:
const parseCookie = str => str .split(';') .map(v => v.split('=')) .reduce((acc, v) => { acc[decodeURIComponent(v[0].trim())] = decodeURIComponent(v[1].trim()); return acc; }, {}); console.log(parseCookie('foo=bar; equation=E%3Dmc%5E2')); // { foo: 'bar', equation: 'E=mc^2' }
Output:
[object Object] { equation: "E=mc^2", foo: "bar" }
- Weekly Trends
- Java Basic Programming Exercises
- SQL Subqueries
- Adventureworks Database Exercises
- C# Sharp Basic Exercises
- SQL COUNT() with distinct
- JavaScript String Exercises
- JavaScript HTML Form Validation
- Java Collection Exercises
- SQL COUNT() function
- SQL Inner Join
- JavaScript functions Exercises
- Python Tutorial
- Python Array Exercises
- SQL Cross Join
- C# Sharp Array Exercises
We are closing our Disqus commenting system for some maintenanace issues. You may write to us at reach[at]yahoo[dot]com or visit us at Facebook