Format date based on client time zone using javascript and ASP.NET AJAX

At time you might want to format date based on the client's browser configuration of language. If you are using ASP.NET AJAX then you will have the provision of using Sys namespace.

Here is a sample snippet that show how to use it :-

function ToClientFormat(ClientDate) {
    var dt = new Date(ClientDate);
    return dt.localeFormat(Sys.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.dateTimeFormat.FullDateTimePattern);
}

Now this will display the date as

Friday, December 10, 2010 11:07:05 AM

As shown you will be able to use Sys.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.dateTimeFormat to get which ever the format you were interested in, refer to MSDN for more details Sys.CultureInfo.dateTimeFormat


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