[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 duanestorey):

 I read a post about a year ago about doing efficient geo-location searches
 using MySQL, and I'm pretty sure someone at Automattic wrote it.  So I
 suspect there's already a geo-location DB accessible somewhere.  Even if
 it's not used to do IP->Lat/Lon, it has a list of city names that could be
 used and translated to lat/lon.  I'm pretty sure only the commercial GeoIP
 databases have timezone information, so it might not have that.  But maybe
 the Geonames data would fill the gap.

 There's also the world time engine API, but it's commercial:

 http://worldtimeengine.com/api/ip

 But it returns a lot of XML information, including UTC offset and DST.

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