[Gmail-Users] Re: how can i add date and time in my gmail compose

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On 12/7/05, Fanis Hatzidakis <theofanis.hatzidakis@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On 12/7/2005 1:37:30 PM Gerard Seibert Replied:
> >
> > To keep track of your local time, Google would either have to place a
> > cookie on your computer, or maintain a data base with your time zone
> > included in it. To my knowledge, Google is not employing either of those
> > technologies rendering the F5 key to inset the users local time
> > impossible.
>
> Google places cookies on your computer. Just look in your cookies
> directory. I don't know if place time information in it, but they can
> always get your timezone by your ip. There exist databases that match
> ips (based on the isp they belong to) to timezones.

Not true. I personally know of several people whose ISP is in a
different timezone from them.

> > Actually, there are technologies to locate the user,
> > (sometimes) and obtain the time zone from that info, but it is very
> > intensive and not worth the time and expense that Google would probably
> > have to invest to deploy it.
>
> It's as easy as querying a database. I'm doing something similar using
> free tools, like http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info .

See my previous comment. If this was a simple problem, it would have
already been solved.

Fuzzy