I need a list of cities and the corresponding timezone for an autocomplete text input

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Where can i find city/timezone data to populate my autocomplete text input.

The text input will be used to type in a city, then behind the scenes i will use the city to get the time zone...

I would prefer to hold it within the app itself and not get it in realtime.

This will be for an iphone app.

Thanks,

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score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '09 at 20:05

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if you download the windows mobile SDK in the resources folder is two csv files with city and timezone information. These files are free to redistribute.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa458853.aspx

answered Mar 01 '09 at 20:05

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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If you need this information for any city/town on earth, you'll need to use a webservice; there's no list of that as such. Look at this post for some recommendations: Web service - current time zone for a city?

I can't see the csv mentioned above, but, if you were after a time zone and a few relevant cities inside the zone, PHP has a DateTimeZone class

that will return all identifiers like this:

$data = DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers();

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Jan 17 '12 at 12:37

Matthias

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for completion's sake: This list is just a PHP implementation of the [IANA Time Zone Database](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database), but I'm sure you can access it somehow in most programming languages. – Matthias Jan 19 '12 at 11:37

I need a list of cities and the corresponding timezone for an autocomplete text input

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