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Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ?

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ?
Date 2014-06-25 14:24 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On 2014-06-25, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
>
>> Are you trying to use a user's IP geolocation data to pick a timezone?
>> Because that's doomed to failure.
>
> Some years back my employer switched ISPs in Southern California. The
> following morning Google displayed everything in Hebrew. It took a week
> or two to be corrected.

Learning Hebrew in a week or two is a pretty impressive feat.

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How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ? codetarsier@gmail.com - 2014-06-25 05:53 -0700
  Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ? Bernd Nawothnig <Bernd.Nawothnig@t-online.de> - 2014-06-25 15:09 +0200
  Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ? Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-06-25 09:09 -0400
  Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-25 23:27 +1000
    Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-25 17:00 +0300
      Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-25 14:24 +0000
        Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-06-25 07:34 -0700
          Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-06-26 11:29 +1200
            Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ? codetarsier@gmail.com - 2014-06-26 02:24 -0700
  Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ? Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2014-06-26 00:44 +0400

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