@blueprintjs/datetime/src/common/getTimezone.ts

Components for interacting with dates and times

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import { UTC_TIME } from "./timezoneItems";

/**
 * Keep the returned timezone constant for a page load.
 */
let memoizedTimezone: string | null = null;

/**
 * Gets the users current time zone, for example "Europe/Oslo".
 * This is currently backed by the browser or computer's locale setting.
 */
export function getCurrentTimezone(): string {
    if (memoizedTimezone === null) {
        // Unsupported in IE, which newer Blueprint components do not support.
        // In the unlikely case that the browser API returns undefined, we default to UTC.
        // @see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/DateTimeFormat/resolvedOptions
        memoizedTimezone = Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone ?? UTC_TIME.ianaCode;
    }
    return memoizedTimezone;
}