get timezone from location name in Ruby on Rails

Question

As we can get timezone from country code like

c = TZInfo::Country.get('US')
zones = c.zone_identifiers

this returns all zones of country.

But I need specific zone of location i.e. "washington, USA"
Is there a way to get timezone from location name?

so we can get timezone by giving location name("washington, USA")

You can find the answer here, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8349817/ruby-gem-for-finding-timezone-of-location# — Srikanth Jeeva, Apr 05 '13 at 06:28
Geokit::Geocoders::GoogleGeocoder.geocode require complete address but here rkp has only location . — Vik, Apr 05 '13 at 06:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '13 at 06:49

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You could download the geonames db and compare lat/lng to the nearest place (with timezone) in the db

answered Apr 05 '13 at 06:49

Vik

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