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From: pushp@nic.cerf.net (Pushpendra Mohta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: determining timezone of internet site
Keywords: GMT time zone
Message-ID: <74@nic.cerf.net>
Date: 14 Jul 90 20:22:20 GMT
References: <5133@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1990Jul14.063316.4303@iwarp.intel.com>
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In article <1990Jul14.063316.4303@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>In article <5133@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, odin@ucscb (Jon Granrose) writes:
>| 	Does anyone know of an easy (preferably interactive) way to figure out
>| what time zone a given site is in?  nslookup doesn't hack it and I can't
>| think of any other way to do it.
>telnet some.site.name 13
>and see what time it is. :-)
>-- 

This will work on most machines, but some do maintain GMT (UTC)

Most domains are geographically ( read time-zone) contiguous.
A "WHOIS" record should return atleast a city name.

--pushpendra