How To get Current Date & Time of user posting something

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datetime.now() return the current date & time of the system but i have to get the current date & time of the user system who is using it ,
E.g when a user post something the current date & time save in database are of the server not the user system ,
Can anyone help , how do i get date and time of the user system not from server machine
my Code

VB

Dim d As String
           d = DateTime.Now.ToString("hh:mm dddd, dd/MM/yyyy")

Posted 7-Jun-13 2:15am

Narendra Singh Rathore

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Osman24 · Answer 1 · 2013-06-07T02:19:00

Solution 1

You can trace the IP and according to IP's local time you can get the date of the post according to user.

Yes Proxy can be misleading but I have no better idea

Or you can get current date in javascript and get with ajax.

Posted 7-Jun-13 2:19am

Osman24

Updated 7-Jun-13 2:21am

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amnk.info · Answer 2 · 2013-06-07T02:21:00

Solution 2

http://www.dotnetperls.com/datetime-format-vbnet[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=vb#code-snippet-1[^]

Posted 7-Jun-13 2:21am

amnk.info