Thanks Jim, On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Jim Monty <jim.mo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ted wrote: > > I looked and couldn't find any names of Indian cities that I recognized: > > Dehli, New Dehli, Mumbai, Kolkata Bangalore, Madras, Chandigarh, > Amritsar, > > &c., &c., &c. None of the timezones I found beginning with "Indian/" are > > actually in India. > > > > > So, are Indian timezones supported, using a name I am not aware of, or is > > there a way to add support for Indian timezones without breaking > anything? > > Yes, of course India is represented in the tz database. It's Asia/Kolkata. > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia/Kolkata. > > And here I was looking for Indian/Kolhata > For a convenient list of all the time zones in the tz database, see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones. > > Given that it seems the entries are generaly 'continent/city',is there something in Datetime that will take any city or state and lookup the entry for the closest city? Or is that something I'll have to write, based on lat/lon data for cities (I am pretty sure I saw a database with lat/lon data for cities somewhere, but ... if it already exists, I don't have to write it)? > For everything you ever wanted to know about time and time zones in India, > start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_India. This article states > "The IANA time zone database contains only > one zone, namely Asia/Kolkata." > > Read all about the tz database itself in the Wikipedia article > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database. The Perl DateTime module > DateTime::TimeZone uses the tz database. > > Jim Monty > Thanks again. Ted.
