Hi, Scenario: We have a Rails app, standard kind, browser sending requests to the Rails app on the server. We want to get (if possible) the date/time/timezone of the machine on which the browser is running. This is for some date/time calculations that we need to do. Done some research on this. HTTP standard says that "Date:" is one of the general HTTP headers. By checking, we found that: a) it is not a requirement of the HTTP standard that a browser should send this header, even though it is a defined and legal header. b) not all browsers necessarily send this header; e.g. Firefox 2.x on Linux does not - we checked. c) we dumped all the values in the request.env hash to screen, didn''t find the Date: header, though there were many other headers like SERVER_SOFTWARE, HTTP_ACCEPT, etc. d) also dug around (some) in the Rails source, didn''t find anything yet. We are looking at other workarounds (such as using a Javascript hack), but may still want to try the above approach. Does anyone know if there is any other way to get the Date: header, from the Rails environment (maybe some lower level call), assuming, of course, that a browser does send it? Thanks for any help, Vasudev Ram --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---