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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ?
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:24:25 +0000 (UTC)
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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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