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I tried some major cities around the world and it’s hit or miss. E.g. Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul and Sidney are all missing. Edit: Okay, the locations are fetche
by oefrha 7y ago
I tried some major cities around the world and it’s hit or miss. E.g. Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul and Sidney are all missing.
Edit: Okay, the locations are fetched from Google Map’s auto complete service, with only the top five results, so when I enter say Beijing I get unhelpful results like some Beijing Pie House in Alhambra, CA. Probably want to limit to cities if possible, no one is entering local street/establishment names here.
- akuji1993 7y agoWeird.. It even found my hometown, which is a random town of 15k people in Germany.
- oefrha 7y agoThat’s because it’s much less likely to have restaurants named after a random town than Beijing or Seoul.
- forgingahead 7y agoDo you live in akuji1993kleinstadt?
- nerdponx 7y agoWhy would it use Google Maps instead of the usual time zone database cities?
- mrcu5 7y agoThat's the whole point of the site. If I'm trying to figure out what time it is for my co-worker in Canberra Australia, I don't want to have to Google what time zone they are in (Australian Eastern Daylight Time). Just put the city in and it does the math for you.
- gtyras2mrs 7y agoI mean, other sites[0] that I've used seem to have a list of major cities (not Google Maps autocomplete) [0] https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
- nerdponx 7y agoI'm talking about the official "tz" database, which contains a large list of cities and geographic coordinates. So if you want to autodetect, you just need approximate lon/lat and then grab the closest tz city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
- madeofpalk 7y ago> Sidney If you're thinking of the city in Australia, it's Sydney. Probably explains why when you search for Sidney it comes up with small towns in USA.
- oefrha 7y agoI think I only made the typo when I typed the comment here but I can’t check now since the service has exceeded quota.