Request Object

[Pradeep Chandrasekharan Nair]

i am working on a project where in i have to display date according to the client machines date format. is there any way where i can get client machines date format in my servlet through request object. Thanks in advance.

[Paul Sturrock]

The best way it to ask the client which locale they are in (or want to use). There are ways to get locale info from the client though the request, but none are as reliable as just plain asking.

[Ben Souther]

Here is a typical set of headers from a request and a response.
As you can see, the server sends it's date/time in a header but the browser doesn't send that information.

You will probably need to do this with Javascript.

 
GET /ubb/graemlins/icon_jumping.gif HTTP/1.1
Host: saloon.javaranch.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5
Accept: image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: [url=http://www.javaranch.com]http://www.javaranch.com[/url]
Cookie: logi....
If-Modified-Since: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:18:39 GMT
If-None-Match: "160c018-248-3c1bb942aa5c0"
Cache-Control: max-age=0
                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                       
HTTP/1.x 304 Not Modified
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:49:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.46 (CentOS)
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=52
Etag: "....
                                                                                                                                                       

[this time Paul beat me... ]
[ June 21, 2005: Message edited by: Ben Souther ]