I think it would be useful to make a set of TZ aliases per
country... like the US/Eastern, etc. stuff but for every country.

It would be even more useful to be able to break it down further as
needed (state by state and county by county as needed).  But that is a
lot of work.

                    -ben

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:05:12AM +1000, Rick Measham wrote:
> At 9:42 AM +1000 1/8/03, Iain Truskett wrote:
> >Does anyone know of a machine-readable "map" that can convert lat/lon
> >to timezone?
> 
> Mac uses a map, you click on the map and it tells you the time at 
> that place in the world. Of course it's closed source so we can't get 
> a copy of it :(
> 
> I remember that this was asked somewhere else .. here or someplace 
> else. There's an online map at http://www.worldtimezone.com/ but it's 
> not 'clickable' to select a timezone.
> 
> While converting a lat/lon to a timezone would be close to 
> impossible, I'm willing to work on a clickable HTML or Flash map.
> 
> The problem with converting lat/lon is that countries are not 
> geometric shapes where it would be easy to determine if a particular 
> lat/lon is within that country.
> 
> Cheers!
> Rick
> 
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