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Daylight Saving Time

Tuesday May 5, 2009
JavaScript can determine if your visitor's location uses daylight saving time.

JavaScript does not directly have access to a flag indicating if your visitor is on daylight saving time or not but if we assume that if their location uses daylight saving time that it only happens for a part of the year over summer we can add a couple of extra methods to the Date object to work it out.

Daylight Saving Time
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