A Perl module that maps geographic coordinates to time zone names such as "Asia/Shanghai". The module uses database files that are published by the Timezone Boundary Builder project.

use Geo::Location::TimeZoneFinder;
my $finder = Geo::Location::TimeZoneFinder->new(file_base => 'shapefile');
my @time_zones = $finder->time_zones_at(lat => $lat, lon => $lon);

Requires the file "timezones.shapefile.zip" from the Timezone Boundary Builder project. The zip archive must be extracted to a directory.

Run the following commands to install the software:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Type the following command to see the module usage information:

perldoc Geo::Location::TimeZoneFinder

Copyright (C) 2023 Andreas Vögele

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.