/default-timezones

Provides a reasonable default timezone for every country.

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Default Timezone for Country

Version 0.1.0

Author: Rahul Gupta-Iwasaki

Summary

Provides a reasonable default timezone for every country.

  • For when you need to know approximately what time it probably is, but it doesn't need to be perfect.
  • Uses the same timezones that Microsoft does in Windows 10 when a user first logs in.
  • Exposes UTC offset info ("+XX:YY") indexed by ISO-3166 country code.

Right now, the easiest way to use it is probably just to copy the json file at //data/default_timezone_by_country_code.json.

If using npm, you can also:

  1. npm install https://github.com/rahulgi/default-timezones

  2. and then in your Javascript code:

    // require the json object
const defaultTimezoneByCountryCode = require("default-timezone-for-country/data/default_timezone_by_country_code.json")
// get the default timezone info for the United States
console.log(defaultTimezoneByCountryCode["US"])
// {
//   country_name: 'United States',
//   timezone_name: 'Pacific Standard Time',
//   timezone_description: 'Pacific Time (US & Canada)',
//   utc_offset: '-08:00'
// }