How to get a time zone from a location using latitude and longitude coordinates?

Question

Given the latitude and longitude of a location, how does one know what time zone is in effect in that location?

In most cases, we are looking for an IANA/Olson time z

Answer 1

Ok here is the short Version without correct NTP Time:

String get_xml_server_reponse(String server_url){

URL xml_server = null;

String xmltext = "";

InputStream input;


try {
    xml_server = new URL(server_url);


    try {
        input = xml_server.openConnection().getInputStream();


        final BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input));
        final StringBuilder sBuf = new StringBuilder();

        String line = null;
        try {
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) 
            {
                sBuf.append(line);
            }
           } 
        catch (IOException e) 
          {
                Log.e(e.getMessage(), "XML parser, stream2string 1");
          } 
        finally {
            try {
                input.close();
                }
            catch (IOException e) 
            {
                Log.e(e.getMessage(), "XML parser, stream2string 2");
            }
        }

        xmltext =  sBuf.toString();

    } catch (IOException e1) {

            e1.printStackTrace();
        }


    } catch (MalformedURLException e1) {

      e1.printStackTrace();
    }

 return  xmltext;

} 


long get_time_zone_time_l(GeoPoint gp){


        String raw_offset = "";
        String dst_offset = "";

        double Longitude = gp.getLongitudeE6()/1E6;
        double Latitude = gp.getLatitudeE6()/1E6;

        long tsLong = System.currentTimeMillis()/1000;


        if (tsLong != 0)
        {

        // https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/timezone/xml?location=39.6034810,-119.6822510×tamp=1331161200&sensor=false

        String request = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/timezone/xml?location="+Latitude+","+ Longitude+ "×tamp="+tsLong +"&sensor=false";

        String xmltext = get_xml_server_reponse(request);

        if(xmltext.compareTo("")!= 0)
        {

         int startpos = xmltext.indexOf("

And use it with:

GeoPoint gp = new GeoPoint(39.6034810,-119.6822510);
long Current_TimeZone_Time_l = get_time_zone_time_l(gp);