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

If you want to use geonames.org then use this code. (But geonames.org is very slow sometimes)

String get_time_zone_time_geonames(GeoPoint gp){


        String erg = "";

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



        String request = "http://ws.geonames.org/timezone?lat="+Latitude+"&lng="+ Longitude+ "&style=full";

        URL time_zone_time = null;

        InputStream input;
       // final StringBuilder sBuf = new StringBuilder();


        try {
            time_zone_time = new URL(request);


        try {
            input = time_zone_time.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");
                }
            }




             String xmltext = sBuf.toString();


             int startpos = xmltext.indexOf("

And use it with:

GeoPoint gp = new GeoPoint(39.6034810,-119.6822510);
String Current_TimeZone_Time = get_time_zone_time_geonames(gp);