Re: guessing timezone based on country/state/city
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Sun, 17 Oct 2004 05:03:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: guessing timezone based on country/state/city | ||
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* Thus wrote Justin French:
> I have an event CMS where really, I should know the TZ of the events,
> which can happen world wide. However the user base is not computer
> heads, so I can't just "ask them".
>
> So, I'm faced with the prospect of making an educated guess based on
> the Country, State and Capital City information provided by the user...
> possibly I could interface with the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/, or
> perhaps there's a database I can download to hook into.
It could be possible to figure out what zone one is in via the
zone.tab file. It probably will be a lot of work just to figure
that out, not to mention you need to be able to find the
coordinates of the persons Country/State.
Curt
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