On 2019-08-16 01:14:03, D Haley wrote:
> Location to timezone seems to be supported by pytzwhere [1].
Interesting!!
> I had a quick play, and I was able to get most of those cities by
> scraping the wikipedia output. Its pretty nasty, but it works about 80%
> of the time, which is close enough. Some manual tuning should fix the
> result.
That's pretty neat. I wonder if there's another package that could give
that offline (city/name -> lat/long).
> This should be able to be fed into tzwhere -- however tzwhere is not in
> debian :(
That shouldn't be hard to fix. Just file a "wnpp" bug and maybe someone
will do it for us. ;)
It would already be pretty cool to be able to specify lat/long and get a
result!
Note that I suspect GNOME and other desktop tools have some logic for
that that could be investigated...
A.
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