Some applications need to be able to show the time for a certain event in the current user time zone. The time zone depends on the geographic location of the user. The location of the user may be determined from the user IP address by using a geo IP database or Web service. So, if you have the user location coordinates, you can use the Google Maps API to determine what is the user time zone. This package can call determine the time zone of a location precisely calling the Google maps API.

Notable PHP package: PHP Google Maps Time Zone Convert

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PHP Google Maps Time Zone Convert

Get a location time zone using Google Maps API

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Some applications need to be able to show the time for a certain event in the current user time zone. The time zone depends on the geographic location of the user.

The location of the user may be determined from the user IP address by using a geo IP database or Web service.

So, if you have the user location coordinates, you can use the Google Maps API to determine what is the user time zone.

This package can call determine the time zone of a location precisely calling the Google maps API.

Author

Ivan Melgrati

Groups

Localization, PHP 5, Time and Date, Web services, Geography

Description

This class can get a location time zone using Google Maps API.

It takes the geographic coordinates of a given location and sends requests to the Google Maps API to determine the time zone of a given location.

The class returns time zone for the given location, as well as that location's time offset from UTC.
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