How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ?

[Bernd Nawothnig]

On 2014-06-25, codetarsier at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm looking for a python-library which can help me to get Timezone and
> Timezone-offset(UTC) from latitude/longitude. 
>
> I'm not able to find an easy way to do it.

You can find the data as a zipped shapefile here:

http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/

Download the data and use pyshp and/or gdal/ogr for the lookup.

It may not be as simple as you wanted it to be, but it is possible.




Bernd

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