Place Timezone information into a cookie with JavaScript

This JavaScript will pick up the users timezone offset and place it nto a cookie. This is useful for when you want to diaply times in your web application taking the users location into account.

As the timezone is placed in a cookie it can be extracted by any serverside scripting technology. Javascript returns the timezone information in minutes so the script converts it into hours.

// By default, getTimezoneOffset returns
// the time zone offset in minutes
setCookie("timezone", new Date().getTimezoneOffset()/60);

function setCookie(name, value, expires, path, domain, secure)
{
	document.cookie= name + "=" + escape(value) +
		((expires) ? "; expires=" +
		expires.toGMTString() : "") +
		((path) ? "; path=" + path : "") +
		((domain) ? "; domain=" + domain : "") +
		((secure) ? "; secure" : "");
}