Auto detect timezone

[Rajesh Raghammudi]

Hello,

I need to detect the timezone based on Date, City(State/ZIP), Country(USA
for now) as part of my application.

Any idea about a perl module which does the above?

Thanks,
Rajesh

[Greg Jetter]

you might have to roll your own , you should be able to create a hash table
of states/timezone from readily available data sources .

Greg

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Jayesh" == Jayesh Thakrar <j_th...@yahoo.com> writes:

Jayesh> There's a webservice that you can invoke. See -

Jayesh> http://www.xmethods.net/ve2/ViewListing.po?key=uuid:6F25C11C-7087-73ED-20B8-71AF6DC69E42

Jayesh> And you can use SOAP:Lite to query the web service with minimal effort.

Ugh. If "SOAP" is part of your answer, you asked the wrong question.

See Geo::GeoNames in the CPAN:

use Geo::GeoNames;
my $result = Geo::GeoNames->new->search(q => 'Portland, Oregon',
maxRows => 1,
style => 'FULL');
print $result->[0]{timezone}{content}, "\n";

==>

America/Los_Angeles

As I would expect.

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