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From:
Dave Rolsky
Date:
February 9, 2006 14:15
Subject:
Re: Daylight Saving
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.64.0602091614050.31284@urth.org
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Rick Measham wrote:
> Does the US ever have more than one TZ per state? As you have the state
It certainly does. Indiana has as least 3, and they vary by county, or
sometimes city, IIRC. There's a couple other states with similar issues.
> and so you could do those states by hand (painful I know, but I imagine
> there's a ZIP <-> lat/lon table around that would help you divide the state
> into positive regions (http://www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm). After that
> you can hand-cut those along the edges of those regions.
This could get pretty tricky. You'd really want GIS-type support for
storing the borders of a time zone.
-dave
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