How to get Timezone from latitude/longitude ?

Akira Li 4kir4.1i at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 16:44:42 EDT 2014


Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:53 AM,  <codetarsier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> It took me 30 seconds on google to find this:
>
> https://github.com/pegler/pytzwhere

Note: tzwhere may consume 750GB memory doing nothing
https://github.com/pegler/pytzwhere/pull/10

You could generate a postgis timezone database from efele.net/tz map or
use an online service instead http://stackoverflow.com/a/16519004


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akira




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