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Re: [Tzdist] Next step

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Mon, 19 October 2015 19:00 UTC

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From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Doug Royer <douglasroyer@gmail.com>, tzdist@ietf.org
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Hi Doug,

--On October 19, 2015 at 12:56:11 PM -0600 Doug Royer 
<douglasroyer@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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).
>
> The database should be separate, political boundaries change and who
> would keep up with (example) the city limits of Wells Nevada so the
> database can correctly map it to Mountain time when the rest of Nevada
> uses Pacific time?
>

It is true that there are already web services that do that kind of thing 
(see e.g., <http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#timezone>). 
The question is whether that would be valuable for a client to do directly 
along side tzdist - or would we just let them rely on their existing 
"date-time/timezone" picker UI.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo

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