Re: Get the timezone from an IP address

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Subject: Re: Get the timezone from an IP address
From: Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 20:07:11 +0100
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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

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