Dec. 5, 2011
12:16 p.m.
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011, Daniel White wrote:
So maybe there's a database which maps all the places of the world to TZID, and then I would use a two-step process instead of one.
Perhaps the "zone.tab" file distributed as part of tzdata would be useful. You could search for the country code in the first column, or search for nearby latitude/longitude in the second column, or both, and then display a menu of a few likely choices. --apb (Alan Barrett)