Patent ID: 8370364

Claim:
A method for establishing an applicable local time zone of a web browser in a computing environment by a processor device, comprising: querying a plurality of time zone offsets over a predetermined period of time to obtain a listing of possible time zones; selecting one of the listing of possible time zones matching a polled absolute coordinated universal time (UTC) offset; assigning a plurality of numerical weights to the selected ones of the listing of possible time zones according to a weighting process based on the matching polled absolute UTC offset, a matching daylight savings observance type, a matching Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) accept-language header, and a human population size; combining each of the assigned plurality of numerical weights to generate a combined numerical weight for the selected ones of the listing of possible time zones; sorting the listing of possible time zones based on the combined numerical weight; and selecting one of the listing of sorted possible time zones having a highest combined numerical weight of the plurality of assigned numerical weights to format a time stamped output.