I'm a nubie at understanding the ins and outs of timezones so please forgive me for my potentially dumb questions. I am looking at building a small embedded system (No OS) that will require determining the local time from the lat/lon of a location. So basically I need lat/lon to time offset from "GMT". I don't really need the geo political information like country or city. However it seems like tz is structured continent/country/city/... Now maybe I already have what I need but I just don't understand it. I have a copy of timezone.csv that seems to include data from country code to city etc. This seems to point to what looks like coordinate data that I don't understand. An example for America/New York seems to point to an area 115. There then seem to be multiple 115 entries like the following; 115, 3907893600, -18000, EST, 0 115, 3919388400, -14400, EDT, 1 My interpretation is that 115 is the area, the next column should be some sort of latitude, next seems to be called an offset in other contexts, next is the used name of the zone followed by a true/false bit. If this is basically true, I guess that what I don't understand it how to "parse" the latitude and how to use the longitude offset. Of course maybe I have this entirely wrong. I would appreciate any help on this basic issue. Regards Larry