On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Andy Wardley wrote: > Tamsin wrote: > > > its not actually that easy and have better things to do than to work out > > the time zones for 6000 places for which I only have a longitude > > and latitude > > If at first you don't succeed, re-define the problem to make it easier :-)
Alternatively, let the site users tell you what the time offset is. First user to enter a city gets to set it. First person after its set to claim it's gone DST sets it. First person to unset that after 5 months has passed gets to reset it. All other alteration suggestions get bounced to you to validate. Think of it as an Open time database, its accuracy will be determined by the number of users who care about any particular datum. Like my barcode db thing, why should I care about the quality of the data that I don't use, when I can write a simple system that lets the people who do care, care. Much like a wiki, in fact. the hatter
