Location to timezone seems to be supported by pytzwhere [1]. I had a quick play, and I was able to get most of those cities by scraping the wikipedia output. Its pretty nasty, but it works about 80% of the time, which is close enough. Some manual tuning should fix the result.
This should be able to be fed into tzwhere -- however tzwhere is not in debian :( [1] https://github.com/pegler/pytzwhere On 16.08.19 00:43, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2019-08-15 23:23:06, D Haley wrote: >> Package: undertime >> Version: 1.7.0 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> I am reporting this here, as gitlab does not allow me to create an account - >> please do forward upstream as needed. >> >> Having the ability to type in a name of a regional capital city to undertime >> and have it recognised would be great. For example, "Moscow" works, however >> "Boston" does not. Similarly, "Lagos" (population 21M) also is not valid. I >> assume the English transliteration would be the best route forward. >> >> Perhaps as an arbitrary cutoff, a list such as from eg. here : >> https://data.mongabay.com/cities_pop_01.htm could be used, with a population >> cutoff specified in Millions. 2M : 170 cities, 4M : 73 cities. > > Hello! > > That's a fair point. I thought about this a little, and settled on using > whatever Python gave me, which is from: > > https://pypi.org/project/pytz/ > > ... which is based (more or less) on this list: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones > > The list you provided is great except it doesn't specify the timezone, > which basically makes it useless. ;) > > For making this work, I'd need a list that: > > * maps a string (city name or location) to a timezone > * is reliably updated > > So far, the only thing that qualifies, as far as I know, is the tzdata > stuff, which is why I'm using it. > > But I'd be happy to have another source! As a rule, however, it should > be available offline. > > A. >
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