in reply to How to get client-side's localtime from the server-side

Geo::IP looks up country by IP Address, and from there you might be able to guess the time zone. There is both a free (gratis) and paid country database:

www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country

use strict; use warnings; use Geo::IP; use DateTime; use DateTime::TimeZone; my $gi = Geo::IP->new(GEOIP_STANDARD); my $country_code = $gi->country_code_by_addr('24.24.24.24'); print qq{Country:\t$country_code}; my $dt = DateTime->now; foreach my $tz (DateTime::TimeZone->names_in_country($country_code)) { $dt->set_time_zone( $tz ); print $tz . qq{\t} . $dt->hms(); } __END__ $ perl -l 630749.pl Country: US America/New_York 04:19:57 America/Detroit 04:19:57 America/Kentucky/Louisville 04:19:57 America/Kentucky/Monticello 04:19:57 America/Indiana/Indianapolis 04:19:57 America/Indiana/Knox 03:19:57 America/Indiana/Winamac 04:19:57 America/Indiana/Marengo 04:19:57 America/Indiana/Vevay 04:19:57 America/Chicago 03:19:57 America/Indiana/Vincennes 03:19:57 America/Indiana/Petersburg 03:19:57 America/Menominee 03:19:57 America/North_Dakota/Center 03:19:57 America/North_Dakota/New_Salem 03:19:57 America/Denver 02:19:57 America/Boise 02:19:57 America/Shiprock 02:19:57 America/Phoenix 01:19:57 America/Los_Angeles 01:19:57 America/Anchorage 00:19:57 America/Juneau 00:19:57 America/Yakutat 00:19:57 America/Nome 00:19:57 America/Adak 23:19:57 Pacific/Honolulu 22:19:57
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