django 1.4 how to automatically get user's timezone from client

Solution 1:

I've simplified it even further, and you can plug in in here: https://github.com/Miserlou/django-easy-timezones or http://gun.io/blog/django-easy-timezones/

Solution 2:

From the documentation:

Selecting the current time zone

The current time zone is the equivalent of the current locale for translations. However, there's no equivalent of the Accept-Language HTTP header that Django could use to determine the user's time zone automatically. Instead, Django provides time zone selection functions. Use them to build the time zone selection logic that makes sense for you.

You can try setting timezone cookie via javascript by utilizing getTimezoneOffset function or try to do some geoip magic and figure timezone by location. Probably the most reliable way would be to ask the user directly and save this information in user profile/session.

Solution 3:

I was hunting around for the sam thing yesterday. In the end I ended up putting together a Django app to what BluesRockAddict suggests above (i.e. use getTimezoneOffset):

https://github.com/adamcharnock/django-tz-detect

I hope someone finds that useful.

Solution 4:

There is a nice APP for django to activate timezone https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-visitor-information-middleware/0.1.0. Which having two middleware

TimezoneMiddleware

The middleware activates a timezone for an authenticated user.

VisitorInformationMiddleware

This middleware adds the following keys to the request.visitor dictionary:

country - country the visitor is based in.

city - city the visitor is based in

location.timezone - timezone used in the location visitor is based in

location.unit_system - unit system used in the location visitor is based in

user.timezone - timezone of the currently authenticated user

user.unit_system - unit system of the currently authenticated user.

cookie_notice - True if a cookie consent notice should be displayed for the current visitor.

Note: Location of the user is determined based on the user's IP address.