NearestTimeZone

Quickly find the name of a time zone for a latitude and longitude without relying on a web service.

NearestTimeZone.to(41.85, -87.65)
=> "America/Chicago"

On a whatever MacBook Air, the time to lookup a single time zone is ~0.000030 seconds. Fast.

The city data is based on the GeoNames cities1000.zip data. To compress the size of the gem, the latitudes and longitudes were rounded to one decimal point of precision.

The Geokdtree gem is used to make the search so fast.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nearest_time_zone_jruby'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nearest_time_zone_jruby

1. Fork it
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