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

This was possible using VBScript but support is removed in IE11. If you are in an IE environment (such as an internal Intranet) then you can convert your VB Code (CreateObject("wscript.shell")) to use ActiveX instead. This will get you around the issue that VB Script is depreciated in IE11 Edge mode and allow your page to access your environment variables and be used in Edge mode. Obviously this is IE only but if you were using VBScript before it was also IE only.

var ax = new ActiveXObject("wscript.shell");
uname = ax.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%USERNAME%");
av = null;
alert(uname);