[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3962: WordPress should adjust for DST ("location" appropriate)

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#3962: WordPress should adjust for DST ("location" appropriate)
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 Reporter:  iacas           |        Owner:          
     Type:  task (blessed)  |       Status:  assigned
 Priority:  high            |    Milestone:  2.8     
Component:  Date/Time       |      Version:  2.1.2   
 Severity:  normal          |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  needs-testing   |  
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Comment(by Otto42):

 Hey, here's a *really* good example of something that might work:
 http://vancouverwebconsultants.com/demos/getting-time-zone-from-latitude-
 longitude.php

 He uses two web services, one from Google (to convert placename into
 lat/long), then one from Geonames (to convert lat/long into a Olson DB
 timezone).

 With a good world map, one could figure out lat/long with a click on it,
 or have the user type in a city and do something similar. This, however,
 does rely on one or two external services, which I'm not sure we're
 comfortable with.

 Necessary API info:
 http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GClientGeocoder
 http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#timezone

 Thoughts on this idea? I'd be far more supportive of allowing the user to
 type in a place if we relied on somebody else to maintain the list of
 placenames.

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