Is it possible that 2 regions in US at any time of year have the same time offset, both are in daylight savings time, but actually have different time zones? If not, then it should be easy to map this data to Rails time zones.
On 24 Lip, 20:21, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > we ask user for his zip code and currently we also ask for this time > > zone (only US). It's a bit redundant, so I'd like to figure out user's > > time zone based on his zip code. > > > The problem is that all services I've seen that provide such data, > > provide only time offset and daylight savings flag for each zip code. > > I'd rather have Rails time zone or anything that I can easily map to > > it :) > > > Or maybe having offset and daylight saving time flag is enough to do > > the mapping myself? > > Should be. > > I've usedhttp://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code-database.aspon several > projects. > > zip_code | city | state | time_zone | day_light_savings > ----------+---------+-------+-----------+------------------- > 98501 | OLYMPIA | WA | 8 | Y > > -philip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
