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Re: [Tzdist] Next step

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Mon, 19 October 2015 14:17 UTC

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From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Ken Murchison <murch@andrew.cmu.edu>, tzdist@ietf.org
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Hi Ken,

--On October 19, 2015 at 10:14:28 AM -0400 Ken Murchison 
<murch@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Actually, would this be a mapping from something like "Pittsburgh, PA" ->
> "America/New_York", or from GPS coordinates to a tzid, or both?

I would prefer just geo URI -> tzid, and leave address->geo to some other 
service (since that is useful in a number of other situations - not just 
tzdist).

-- 
Cyrus Daboo

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