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Re: Get the timezone from an IP address

From André Rodier <andre@rodier.me>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Get the timezone from an IP address
Date 2019-05-08 21:40 +0200
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On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 20:07 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On 08/05/2019 19:43, André Rodier wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there any way - or Debian package - to know the timezone from an IP
> > address, or at least from a country? I have successfully used the geoip
> > databases to get the country, so I could use the main city as an
> > approximation.
> > 
> > I would prefer to do this offline, though.
> > 
> > Thanks for your insights.
> > 
> 
> Some part of my brain said that the timezone database holds this
> information, but it may not do so directly. Here's some suggestions from
> IANA, though.
> 
> https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html#boundaries
> 

Thank you, I will have a look to this.

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Get the timezone from an IP address André Rodier <andre@rodier.me> - 2019-05-08 21:00 +0200
  Re: Get the timezone from an IP address Mindaugas Celiesius <m.celiesius@yandex.ru> - 2019-05-08 21:00 +0200
    Re: Get the timezone from an IP address André Rodier <andre@rodier.me> - 2019-05-08 21:40 +0200
      Re: Get the timezone from an IP address Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-05-08 22:50 +0200
  Re: Get the timezone from an IP address Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2019-05-08 21:10 +0200
    Re: Get the timezone from an IP address André Rodier <andre@rodier.me> - 2019-05-08 21:40 +0200
  Re: Get the timezone from an IP address Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-05-08 21:10 +0200
    Re: Get the timezone from an IP address André Rodier <andre@rodier.me> - 2019-05-08 21:40 +0200

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