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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition
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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

by David Flanagan
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

Date.getTimezoneOffset( ) — determine the offset from GMT

Availability

JavaScript 1.0; JScript 1.0; ECMAScript v1

Synopsis

                  date.getTimezoneOffset(  )

Returns

The difference, in minutes, between Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and local time.

Description

getTimezoneOffset( ) returns the number of minutes difference between the GMT or UTC time and the local time. In effect, this function tells you what time zone the JavaScript code is running in and whether or not daylight savings time is (or would be) in effect at the specified date.

The return value is measured in minutes, rather than hours, because some countries have time zones that are not at even one-hour intervals.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596000480Supplemental ContentCatalog PageErrata