Possible to get the current timezone from JSON API request (Rails)

Asked Jan 29 '17 at 23:04

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I've got a Rails JSON API that gets called by my client app, ie:

[GET] /posts?time=today

Previously I was getting today's date by calling Date.today, but this causes bugs because it uses the server's timezone and not the user's timezone.

I know it's a long shot, but is there a way to fix this without having to update the client to pass in the current timezone? I could do an IP lookup, but it seems too heavyweight. Is the timezone information passed in anywhere in the request?

asked Jan 29 '17 at 23:04

nathan

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Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/a/12326703/3399504 – ErvalhouS Jan 29 '17 at 23:13
@ErvalhouS This is not a duplicate. The linked question is about getting the user's timezone from their browser. This question is about a JSON API. – nathan Jan 29 '17 at 23:51
I'm sorry, but this is also covered in one of the answers of that question. – ErvalhouS Jan 30 '17 at 07:26

Possible to get the current timezone from JSON API request (Rails)

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