From: 12 34 <rubyforum@...>
Date: 2010-06-04T04:10:12+09:00
Subject: geonames DST problem

The script:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'geonames'

lat=-54.936772
lon=-67.604408

timezone = Geonames::WebService.timezone lat, lon
dst_offset = timezone.dst_offset.to_i # Is this for the day it's done?
FIX to_i is not ROBUST
gmt_offset = timezone.gmt_offset.to_i # not affected by DST
timezone_id = timezone.timezone_id # Wordy version of timezone
puts "timezone_id:  #{timezone_id} \ngmt_offset: #{gmt_offset}
\ndst_offset: #{dst_offset}"

places_nearby = Geonames::WebService.find_nearby_place_name lat, lon
location = "#{places_nearby.first.name},
#{places_nearby.first.country_name}"

puts "location: #{location}"

#  Result
# timezone_id:  America/Santiago
# gmt_offset: -3
# dst_offset: -4
# location: Puerto Williams, Chile

Am I mixed up or is the answer backwards?

Here in California GMT-8 and DST is -7. Santiago should be on standard
time now, not that that's relevant to what I think should be being
delivered.
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