How to retrieve the client's current time and time zone when using Shiny?

Question

I\'m wondering if there is some clever way of getting the clients current time and time zone in order to use it in the server.R part of a Shiny application. If

Answer 1

You could fetch it over socket communication, but with much overhead, or if your time between the client is synchronized, you could trust your local time, fetch their timezone, evaluate the timezone difference between the server and the client, plus/minus the difference, then you would fetch their time and timezone without much work. (Somehow probably but in most case, by doing this, would lose a precision of 2 to 3 seconds due to computer keep up)