Localization

[kettch]

Is there any way to find out the culture of the visitor to a asp.net website? Or even just the UTC offset would be great. For the desktop applications all of the date and time data in the database is stored in UTC and then converted to local time according to wherever the local culture/timezone is. Is there anyway to do this in asp.net without making them choose? The less user interaction, the better because this application is designed for use with mobile phones and other small devices.

Thanks

 

[chiph]

Take a look at this, to determine your caller's timezone:

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/37/188110.aspx

You can't really determine their culture, but you can determine their language preference via the HTTP Accept-Language header. The user's browser sends a list of preferred languages (in descending order of preference), and you would walk the list, looking for a match.

Chip H.


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