How to get the time of Computer and not server Java vaadin

Question

Hey how to get the time of the computer and not the server using vaadin because getDate return to me the time of the server but i want the client computer time ??

Answer 1

Vaadin has a class called WebBrowser that provides useful information about the client (browser):

You can access the current WebBrowser instance for example as follows:

public class MyApplication extends Application {

    @Override
    public void init() {
        setMainWindow(new Window());

        ApplicationContext context = this.getContext();
        if (context instanceof WebApplicationContext) {
            WebBrowser webBrowser = ((WebApplicationContext) this.getContext()).getBrowser();

            Date now = webBrowser.getCurrentDate(); // Returns the current date and time on the browser
        }
    }
}

For more information about the WebBrowser class, see its JavaDocs.

Answer 2

Vaadin runs on server side, so everything you do there corresponds to the server itself. For your problem you can probably create a vaadin widget to get clients time(-zone) and pass it to the server.