• @JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    116 months ago

    Interesting. Possibly useful to some. I have also discovered that the simplest, most privacy-friendly way to update location is just to do it manually when you change location.

    I have a simple script that does this by querying OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim server with the city name. It feeds the resulting coordinates thru a Python library that deduces the timezone, and sets the system time to this.

  • @Hirom@beehaw.org
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    46 months ago

    Then someone will write an utility that automatically sets timezone using geoclue location data.

    • @zquestz@lemm.eeOP
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      16 months ago

      They could if GeoClue was reliable. The problem is that it often doesn’t work, so I doubt anyone would want to use it as a source to set their time zone.

  • SayCyberOnceMore
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    36 months ago

    Ah, ok, got a little confused… GeoClue TZ is an improvement on GeoClue

    I didn’t even know this was a thing, I just dealt with this manually - now feeling a little silly.