Different country same TimeZone

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Hi,

Is there any way we can get country details from TimeZone?.

I mean say NY-New York (US) is coming under EST TimeZone

and ON-Ontario (Canada) is also coming under EST TimeZone

So how can we get the exact country the person is working from?

Here one user can move from one country to another country very frequently.

(I mean person can move from NY US(EST) to

ON-Canada(EST) for business purpose)

So I can’t take Notes name

(XX Name/USA/ABC , YY Name/CANADA/ABC)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, in advance!

Anto Joseph

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Subject: Different country same TimeZone

I doubt very much you could get the country details from Time Zone as Time Zone is independent of the Country.

For example in “Eastern” you have:

Canada,

United States,

Panama,

Jamaica,

Haiti,

Cuba,

Bahama,

Columbia,

Ecuador,

Peru and

Brazil

At least according to wikipedia. Eastern Time Zone - Wikipedia

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Subject: RE: Different country same TimeZone

Stephen, Thanks for quick response.

ok… If not from TimeZone. Is there any way we can capture the Country details. ( Apart from Notes Name format )

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Subject: RE: Different country same TimeZone

Client or Web?

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Subject: RE: Different country same TimeZone

Its for Client. But if its possible in web. Please let me know that.

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Subject: RE: Different country same TimeZone

Are you trying to capture where the person is located: for that day or where they are admistratively located?

If the latter, I would normally pull the information from the Address Book (e.g. Country). Clearly, it’s only as good as the data in the address book but it encourages the users to keep the address book up to date.

If you want to know “day to day” location - maybe you could look at their IP address but that only works if they are connecting to different domains which would be identified as in Canada or in the U.S, so this likely isn’t going to help you. For example, I work in Canada but my companies IP address is assoicated with the U.S. head office so my IP address says I’m located in the U.S.

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Subject: RE: Different country same TimeZone

Actually I need to know the day to day location. Actually the person may be from U.S. But when he perform action, on that day he may be working from Canda branch. So may be I need to know from his current system settings.

Yes regarding IP Address you are correct in my case it would say the person is from U.S.