How do you know what time zone you are in?

How does Quora know what time zone I'm in?

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    The site gets that information from your browser. If you view source on this page, you can see where this happens.  The line is: Q.cookie("tz", new Date().getTimezoneOffset(), {"path": "/"});

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Your browser knows, through your OS. Quora probably injects some Javascript into the page so a universal timestamp from a Quora server can be customized to suit you. So Quora 'apparently' knows your timezone. It may be roughly determined through your IP address as well.

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