How to get current date based on time zone or locale, or user preference?

My web application is deployed in the US I will get US time regardless of the client's country. But if the client is in India, he should get Indian time, either using the time zone or locale or user preference. What should I do?

Example : A user is doing a transaction from India morning 8.00 am .and user searches for the transaction he found the time is US date and time ,user get confused
So we need to change the time as local time .

What I need to do

Please help me

use Client Locale like
Locale clientLocale = request.getLocale();
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(clientLocale);
TimeZone clientTimeZone = calendar.getTimeZone();

Thanks for your reply

If your having any sample code for this requirement or any link or any docs related to this
It would be helpful.

Thanks in advance

Hi josuva,
try this link
http://forums.devarticles.com/java-development-38/jsp-getting-the-client-system-date-and-time-to-display-on-19428.html
and let me know if you face any issue, i would be happy to help.

you can use java script to find client timezone offset and send to a server to calculate clients timezone

Seetharaman Venkatasamy wrote:you can use java script to find client timezone offset and send to a server to calculate clients timezone

Thanks for your reply . I have get the time offset from the javascript as -330 . How I need to manipulate with date which I have in US date format. can you please help me
If possible send me the sample code

I am not aware how to manipulate date with the offset in java. can you help me

harshvardhan ojha wrote:Hi josuva,
try this link
http://forums.devarticles.com/java-development-38/jsp-getting-the-client-system-date-and-time-to-display-on-19428.html
and let me know if you face any issue, i would be happy to help.

Thanks for the reply .The first part of the code which help me how to use the locale .I am checking a code to get the timeOffset from the javascript (client Side )
read from the server side and change the date while displaying .

Thanks in advance

Be sure that you have a fallback default for cases when the user has JavaScript disabled.