Getting user's timezone based on IP address

[cancer10]

Hi

Is there anyway we can get user's timezone based on their IP address without using a paid 3rd party service?


Thanks

[Fou-Lu]

You can try using the PECL geoip package: http://php.ca/manual/en/book.geoip.php
This would let you retrieve information from the ip, and you can use that to feed into timezone fetch for the country and region (one of the functions in the package do that). That timezone can in turn be used with DateTimezone objects.

[sunfighter]

It may be a lot easier to use javascript to do this. Here are some free tools http://www.iplocationtools.com/