Automate time zone selection (Was: RFE: use nasa worldwind...)

[Robert Relyea]

Nils Philippsen wrote:
>
> IMO, to make setting this automatically sensible and reliable, you'd
> have to have some things first:
>
> - a freely available mapping between "position on earth" and the
> corresponding timezone that's kept up to date
> - an attached GPS receiver that can be read from Linux
>   
No need for a gps. If the network is configured...

http://www.networldmap.com/TryIt.htm

Google for 'ip location' for a whole slew of them (each varies in 
quality, none got my location, but most were accurate enough to get my 
time zone). If it's even 90% correct it will greatly reduce the number 
of people who have to manually adjust their timezone).

The question is can we find/create an freely available database so we 
can put up our own server.

bob

> Just the first one makes this a no-go, I haven't been able to dig up
> something like this. I couldn't even find a freely available,
> machine-readable coarse map of timezones.
>
> Nils
>   

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