[tz] Converting from individual cities/states/country names to Windows time zone names

David Patte dpatte at relativedata.com
Mon Dec 5 19:41:27 UTC 2011


Time Zone Master, available for free from www.relativedata.com, is a 
windows programme that uses geonames cities15000.txt then the olson tz 
database to represent times and locations in the past and future. It 
also does some interesting astronomical time calculations as well 
(sundial time, moon phases, sunrise/sunset, and seasons)


On 2011-12-05 13:06, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Daniel White wrote:
>
>>> There is one at http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ (by country,
>>> it's a lot of data).
>> Certainly. I only want the most famous places, something closer to around
>> 100k-200k filesize at the most (as my calc is only around 300k itself). If it
>> means I have to filter yet another stage, then so be it, but then I would need
>> to hunt for a list of the '1000 most well known places' (or similar) in the
>> world.
> Population information is also in that database btw. There is a file
> "cities15000.txt" which lists as:
> cities15000.zip          : all cities with a population>  15000 (ca
>                             20.000), see 'geoname' table for columns
>
> cheers,
> Derick
>


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