[tz] 'Australia/Canberra' time zone?

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 2019-11-23, at 13:18:46, Guy Harris wrote:
> See
> 	https://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#timezone
> 
> although they are rate-limited.  I think Ubuntu may do a bulk download of the database and use it for their own server, used for the Ubuntu time-zone-selection mechanism.
>  
Thanks.

Example http://api.geonames.org/timezone?lat=47.01&lng=10.2&username=demo
Produces unrendered XML (CSS somewhere) from which I can copy-and-paste
zoneinfo path.

> My phone uses the result it gets from Location Services ...
(or entered in Settings; limited gazetteer.)
> ... and turns it into a tzdb ID internally.  
(but only internally)

> ... So does my Mac, and the way I display the zone info path is
> 
> 	$ ls -ld /etc/localtime
> 	lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  45 Oct  4 03:47 /etc/localtime -> /var/db/timezone/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
> 
> (your mileage may vary on macOS Catalina if that's on a read-only file system).
> 
On Mojave, I enabled "Full Disk Access" for Termimal.

> I don't know whether Apple have their own image maps.  This project:
> 
> 	https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder
> 
> is "A tool to extract data from Open Street Map (OSM) to build the boundaries of the world's timezones."  I don't know what geonames.org uses - it may use somebody's shapefiles or it may rely on people associating tzdb IDs with locations.

Thanks again,
gil