Re: Very unique need

2008-03-24 Thread William Heath
I am finding more info about the geometry possibilities of timezones mapped onto a spherical globe. You can see this at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2007-02-20_time_zones_white_bck.svg I need to know how this image was generated though. Any ideas how I could find out? -Tim P.S. I need

Re: Very unique need

2008-03-24 Thread Jerrad Pierce
You've still not really clarified your intent, but you appear to mean only large cities, in which case you can scrape much of this information from wikipedia as Time zone is a standard field in the RHS info box for cities. I'm sure you could piece together a simplified version of the rest as well.

RE: Very unique need

2008-03-24 Thread Harder, Paul
0:49 To: Harder, Paul Cc: datetime@perl.org Subject: Re: Very unique need I think I may have found a possible solution. If you go to: http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&srt=npan &col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&geo=-54 You can find all the cities

Re: Very unique need

2008-03-24 Thread William Heath
I think I may have found a possible solution. If you go to: http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&srt=npan&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&geo=-54 You can find all the cities for a certain country with their longitude/latitude. I believe it is possible to know the longitudes

Re: Very unique need

2008-03-24 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
Harder, Paul schreef: > That is not, in fact, a unique need. I have it too, but I find that I > am having to live my life without satisfying the need. Hmmm..., maybe > it's just a "want". The sad fact is that there is no source of > information (that I or anybody else on this list has been able t

RE: Very unique need

2008-03-24 Thread Harder, Paul
That is not, in fact, a unique need. I have it too, but I find that I am having to live my life without satisfying the need. Hmmm..., maybe it's just a "want". The sad fact is that there is no source of information (that I or anybody else on this list has been able to find) that gives you what yo

Re: Very unique need

2008-03-24 Thread Jerrad Pierce
>I am enjoying DateTime::TimeZone as usual. I have a unique need to be able >to somehow know all the countries, cities, and postal codes that are in a >certain TimeZone, can anyone recommend a way to do that? What you ask is nigh impossible, at least in the most general case as phrased* Besides be

Re: Very unique need

2008-03-24 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, William Heath wrote: I am enjoying DateTime::TimeZone as usual. I have a unique need to be able to somehow know all the countries, cities, and postal codes that are in a certain TimeZone, can anyone recommend a way to do that? _If_ you could get the geographic data descri