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by kzrdude 2017 days ago
It's not geolocation - just a javascript function to ask the browser what the UTC offset of your local time is. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091372/getting-the-clie...
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shakna 2017 days ago
Which JavaScript function? The two main ones return two differing results for my browser.

  Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone

  > "Australia/Melbourne"
Which is UTC +11.

   new Date().getTimezoneOffset()

   > -710
Which is roughly UTC +11.8.

If you're going to shoebox me into a particular timezone - tell me what it is, and let me change it.

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