Requester's local time on Actions on Google

Mark691

I'd like to be able to set a user's timezone in my app, and the only way I can think to do that would be to ask for their local time and use that to calculate the offset. Is there any way to do this?I know that you can get the user's timezone with the getUserLocale action, but that just returns the IANA timezone identifier (e.g. America/Los_Angeles). I need the actual offset from GMT, which I can then use to set the user's timezone in my app.

Eli910

Yes, you can get the requester's local time offset from actions on google. You can use the following code to do so:

var time = new Date().getTime();
var offset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset();
var requesterTime = time + (offset * 60000);

console.log("The requester's local time is: " + requesterTime);

You can also find more information on the actions on google documentation site here:
https://developers.google.com/actions/reference/conversation#Button

Denise129

You can't get the requester's local time from actions on google. However, you can get the requester's time zone offset from actions on google.