is it possible to get timezone from lua hook? about recorder

[jpmens]

not specifically, but. you might be able to use os.date.

[centralhardware]

the problem is that the device that transmits the coordinates may be in a time zone that is different from the server’s time zone

[centralhardware]

For now i am identify timezone by reverse geocoding but if i can receive timezone directly from device it made everything easier

[jpmens]

You raise a very valid point.

When using our Recorder as backend, we perform reverse geo lookups (if so configured), and store country code alongside the address in the LMDB database:

$ ocat —dump | grep …

u0fxp88 {"cc":"BE","addr":"Autoroute de Wallonie, 7390 Mons, Belgium","tst":1660297060,"locality":"Mons"}

This data is surfaced via the API:

curl http://192.168.1.30:8083/api/0/locations -d
 user=jp -d device=5s -d from=2022-08-12T06:50 -d format=json | jq .

{
  "_type": "location",
  "acc": 5,
  "lat": 50.453064,
  "lon": 3.845614,
  "tid": "jp",
  "tst": 1660297031,
  "vac": 3,  "vel": 116,
  "ghash": "u0fxp88",
  "cc": "BE",
  "addr": "Autoroute de Wallonie, 7390 Mons, Belgium",
  "locality": "Mons",
  "isorcv": "2022-08-12T09:37:11Z",
  "isotst": "2022-08-12T09:37:11Z",
  "disptst": "2022-08-12 09:37:11"
}

and, finally, that contains a country code (cc).

It’s not exactly what you want, but might be a bit of help. However, we’d need to take tst into consideration to determine whether daylight savings was in effect, etc.

What a mess. ;)

[jpmens]

We've been talking about this. The tst is definitely in UTC. As @ckrey points out it is possible to lookup $TZ using one of a large number of languages / services

[centralhardware]

Solved by #444 Many thanks to the participants for their useful help