Re: Extracting a time zone from a latitude longitude

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On 21 Nov 2009, at 17:51, Phpster wrote:
> This is a simple math problem. Create am array with a start and end longitude for that timezone and run a comapre from your lay/long co-ords to see where it falls.

It's not that simple because timezones boundaries don't run in straight lines from pole to pole.

I Googled and got this among several others...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41504/timezone-lookup-from-latitude-longitude

-Stuart

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> On Nov 21, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Haig Davis <level510@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Good Morning all,
>> 
>> Having a look at the time zone functions in PHP you can enter a time zone
>> city and get it's lat long. Does anybody know how you can run the function
>> in reverse (or know of a similar function) i.e. get the time zone city from
>> the geographic coordinates. Google maps was a thought but the functions are
>> only for use in google maps which rules out my use for them.
>> 
>> Have a great weekend.
>> 
>> Cheers
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