Determine timezone from latitude/longitude without using web services like Geonames.org

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I had this problem a while back and did exactly what adam suggested:

  • Download the database of cities from geonames.org
  • convert it to a compact lat/lon -> timezone list
  • use an R-Tree implementation to efficiently lookup the nearest city (or rather, its timezone) to a given coordinate

IIRC it took less than 1 second to populate the R-Tree, and it could then perform thousands of lookups per second (both on a 5 year old PC).

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