Get local time and/or time zone?

[oren.levine@nokia.com]

I'm working on a web app that displays local bus schedules for Washington, DC. I want to show information based on the current time. The schedules are in local time (Eastern Daylight, GMT-4), but the system time is always GMT, since it's coming from the proxy server.
Is there a way of reading the local device time or timezone so that I can correct the system time? Without that feature, I will need to hard-code the time zone offset, including summer time corrections, and that will be ugly

[rosti]

There's no work-around for getting the device timezone. In this case where you know the client timezone (Washington GMT-4), I'd take the hard-coded route even it wouldn't be that elegant.

[oren.levine@nokia.com]

That's what I assumed. I would propose this as a new feature for a future release. I am assuming that you can read the device time zone from Java programs; perhaps the browser can leverage that call for web apps.