2008/10/6 Jan Lübbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We were thinking about how to handle timezones in the FSO framework and > decided we would like to be able to detect the time zone automatically > based on the current location. I've search for a database with the > necessary information, but i only found a commercial provider which > doesn't allow redistribution. > > Does anyone have an idea how we could solve this problem?
sounds like information that could be managed in the openstreetmap database. it is after all geodata, and osm is pretty relaxed as to what info is added if you added a key to the wiki through the usual discussion/voting progress and talked it up on the osm-talk mailing list, i bet you could have it populated very quickly, and it would be a very non-restrictive license how many discrete time zones are there after all? can't be more than 100? i understand william's reticence, but so long as the data is kept up to date and/or there's a way to override it, there should be no problems - nz dst has changed again recently and the some older phones have had some problems, so i know where he's coming from _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
