Reading environment variables with Javascript

Question

I need to read the system time from the environment variables on the client\'s OS. I searched on Stackoverflow and found that this isn\'t possible. However, those answers we

Answer 1

There is only one way to do this - by using special web browser. Something like node-webkit. It integrates webkit engine with node.js, so you can use it together with DOM.

document.write(require('os').type());

But as everybody else said - there is no chance to do it with "normal" web browser.