[atlas] [request]: probe timezone offsets

> On 27 Nov 2015, at 15:29, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
> 
>>     It would be great if the timezone offsets of the probe are available via API.
> 
>   But how would the probe learn it? It is not sent in the DHCP answer.

No no, the probe does not need to learn it.

The timezone offset can be derived from the latitude / longitude (provided by
the probe owner during registration; currently available via probe API).  As
long as the geolocation does not change, so does the timezone offset.

It's possible to do this in the analysis phase as well, but it takes time to
calculate these offsets for ~9K probes. Therefore, was thinking, perhaps a
field in the probe API would save time.

Best, Vaibhav

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Vaibhav Bajpai

Room 91, Research I
School of Engineering and Sciences
Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

www.vaibhavbajpai.com
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