We are displaying schedules on our webpage which is build on GWT. Client system using different timezone from server and because of that, all the schedules were displaying wrong. Is there a way to set default time zone when we load the page? Like the way we do it in java:

TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Kolkata"));

Thanks!!!

We are displaying schedules on our webpage which is build on GWT. Client system using different timezone from server and because of that, all the schedules were displaying wrong. Is there a way to set default time zone when we load the page? Like the way we do it in java:

TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Kolkata"));

Thanks!!!

• javascript
• gwt

2 Answers 2

No, you can't set the timezone of Date objects in javascript. Usually you use only UTC and epoch-based timestamps.

Only when creating a Date from a string or from year, month etc. the local timezone will be used, you can only get the timezone offset.

Converting a timezone can only be done by re-setting the Hours of the Date object (example described here), creating a date which looks-like having an offset timezone but is just utc.

In case you are using moment.js for your dates, you can set the default timezone for all newly created moments with:

moment.tz.setDefault(String)

https://momentjs./timezone/docs/#/using-timezones/default-timezone/