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

[Derick Rethans]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Daniel White wrote:

> So maybe there's a database which maps all the places of the world to TZID, and 
> then I would use a two-step process instead of one.

There is one at http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ (by country, 
it's a lot of data).

cheers,
Derick