On 02 Aug 2014 at 00:27, Stephen Chrzanowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> I understand that with routing and such, you can end up outside where you
> really are (With my IP, I'm shown just outside of Toronto when I'm actually
> two hours out), but the chances of showing up in Taiwan when you're in
> Tennessee is doubtful.
More to do with what the owner of the IP address block decides to do, than with
routing. They could easily have a world-wide or continent-wide network, in
which case your IP address tells you nothing at all.
On OS X, I appear to be able to do it thus (in PHP):
$zonepath = @readlink ('/etc/localtime'); // Path to the timezone
file
if ($zonepath===false) exit (1); // User needs to set
timezone
$leadin = '/usr/share/zoneinfo/'; // Strip off the leadin
and
$timezone = substr ($zonepath, strlen($leadin)); // the timezone remains
Whether this generalises to other unix flavours I don't know. I was unable to
find a reliable way to do similar under Windows, though it may exist.
--
Cheers -- Tim
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