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Time zone service in RSS? by L. Coyote on 04-04-2007 at 06:17 PM

Hey!

I was wondering if you knew of any service that can give you the current time zone of a specific location in RSS or similar thing.

Eg.: Brazil -> -03:00 GTM

RE: Time zone service in RSS? by hmaster on 04-04-2007 at 08:15 PM

You could make it yourself using http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ ?

RE: Time zone service in RSS? by L. Coyote on 04-04-2007 at 08:40 PM

I'm trying to avoid having to parse 20 pages to get time zones of countries, hence I asked for RSS output. (I didn't see RSS there.)

RE: Time zone service in RSS? by hmaster on 04-04-2007 at 09:27 PM

Do you want a particular country or a list?

RE: Time zone service in RSS? by L. Coyote on 04-04-2007 at 09:45 PM

It's a small list (less than 20 countries) that I need to use constantly to have the current time zones (some of these countries might use DST).

Having to manually check or parsing a whole website is out of the question, that's why I'm specifically asking for RSS/XML/whatever.

RE: Time zone service in RSS? by WDZ on 04-04-2007 at 10:10 PM

Can't you use a script to download a "world clock" page like the one hmaster linked to, scrape data from it, then output as RSS? You'd probably never notice the intermediate step if it's coded properly and hosted on a reliable server. :p

RE: Time zone service in RSS? by L. Coyote on 04-04-2007 at 10:22 PM

quote:
Originally posted by WDZ
Can't you use a script to download a "world clock" page like the one hmaster linked to, scrape data from it, then output as RSS? You'd probably never notice the intermediate step if it's coded properly and hosted on a reliable server. :p
:rolleyes: No, I can't. Hence I said "I don't want to parse" it.


Never mind, then. Thanks for your help guys. I'll just have to make the list myself and update it whenever I remember. :P Oohh, that will be hell...
RE: Time zone service in RSS? by WDZ on 04-04-2007 at 10:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by L. Coyote
:rolleyes: No, I can't. Hence I said "I don't want to parse" it.
OK then... (&)

I just found this RSS feed... maybe it's what you're looking for? http://www.koalanet.com.au/world-time-zones.rss
RE: Time zone service in RSS? by L. Coyote on 04-04-2007 at 10:53 PM

Now THAT can actually save my ass!

:) Thanks!