If you make no further assumptions then this question is not solvable. For 
example we use standard time in our data collection systems even though legal 
time here applies daylight savings offset in the summer. In some cases I have 
seen data collected from sites in multiple time zones recorded in one data base 
with a single time zone.
Even if you do assume local legal time applies in all cases, the boundaries of 
the time zones have changed over time. There exist time zone maps (e.g. 
http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/) that you could assume apply but I am not aware 
of any in CRAN. Someone on r-sig-geo might be able to help.
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carlisle thacker <carlisle.thac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I have data that provide longitude, latitude, and local date and time
>but
>no information about the corresponding time zone.  How to identify the
>time
>zone so they can be converted to a common date/time?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Carlisle
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