Perl Folks, >> I'm finally putting plan to code and I ran into an issue that
there does not appear to be a standard for the location of a system.
>> In order to calculate the sunset and sunrise for my is_nighttime/is_daytime
>> scripts, I need to know the location of the host.
>> Please let me know if you know of any system location standards for
>> something that I feel should be ubiquitous. > From: Mike Flannigan via
>> Houston [email protected]
> As far as I know, there is no other way for a computer
> to know where it is located, except for it's IP address. Well now there is!
> I put a package together called Geo::Local::Server
> http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Geo%3A%3ALocal%3A%3AServer.It implements two
> different standards to configure the location of the local server. One is
> via an environment variable and one is via the file in
> /etc/local.coordinates. It should support Windows platforms too.Check it
> out. I've added the is_nighttime/is_daytime scripts that I needed to the
> distro too. Now, I guess, I should to turn this into an RFC somehow. Anyone
> ever done that? Comments welcome.Thanks,
Mike
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