Re: SuSE 9.1 finally arrived (long review)...

From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:52:40 -0000

James Knott wrote:
> houghi wrote:
>
>> About this timezone, I guess they 'could' see what timezone you are in.
>> When you make a connection, they could look up your IP and see what
>> timezone you are in, or is that too farfetched? I know it could work for
>> Europe, as they can see I have a Belgian IP.
>>
>
> I don't know if you've noticed this, but countries in Europe tend to be
> somewhat smaller than in North America. In fact, most provinces & states
> are larger than most European countries. There are even some parks in
> Canada & U.S, that are larger than some entire countries. How many
> European countries that you know of, have 6 time zones, like Canada does?
> As for IPs, you might be able to nail it down to an ISP, but they might be
> serving the entire country from their address pool.
>

The different connection I have made always pointed me to the correct
country and therefore the correct timezone, especially because I have
only tested this in Belgium.

Because I was not sure, I asked if it were too farfetched. There are
things like http://www.geobytes.com and
http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp

More explanations can be found on http://www.private.org.il/IP2geo.html

Well, you get the idea. It is apperently possible to locate what area
you are in. Some mistakes will be made, especialy if you have a provider
who has *.*.*.0/8 in Hawaii and the rest in New York.

However the few tests I did with http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp
gave me cities, states and countries. It is my believe that that is
close enough for timezone guessing.

On that page you can buy a M$ program. There are other programs as well
for Linux.
http://www.phpclasses.org/mirrors.html?page=%2Fbrowse%2Fpackage%2F514.html
is one, I guess.

So the fact that there are different timezones in a country or with a
provider is unimportand, it seems. 

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