How To Retrieve Client’s Date in ASP.Net – Easiest way

Friends,

A very short post for a simple task. In this post, we will see how we can get the date of a user browsing the page on server in ASP.Net. DateTime.Now gives us the server Date & Time. Retrieving Client’s date is required in cases when you want to process something based on browser’s date and not Server’s date. To do this, we will use a hidden field and a bit of jQuery.

• In the ASPX page, declare a hidden field. lets name it as hdnClientDate.

• Add the below jQuery that will auto populate the hidden field with the current date when the page is loaded.

• Parse the date in server side on any Postback.

       DateTime dd;
       DateTime.TryParse(hdnClientDate.Value, out dd);
  

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