Speaking as someone who's work routes their internet traffic through a
gateway in Phoenix, AZ despite being based in Australia, guessing time
zones based off IP location is a lot more prone to error than detecting it
based off the client.


On 31 July 2014 17:54, Stephen Chrzanowski <pontia...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking back at the clarification of what the OP wanted to do, I've got
> this to recommend;
>
> If your users are talking to your server via the internet and not via a VPN
> connection, instead of relying on what time zone your users browser is
> giving you, look at what IP they're calling in from and do an IP to
> geographical look up to find out where they are.  From there you'd be able
> to catalog a 'best time of contact' based on what the Geolocation service
> gives you.
>
> Doing a quick google search on "ip to geo" I found these two:
> http://www.iplocation.net/ and http://www.geoiptool.com/
>
> By the looks of it, for a modest yearly fee, you'd be able to download a
> database of IPs to locations and you'd be able to get time zone information
> right from there.
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