determining timezone of internet site
Pushpendra Mohta
pushp at nic.cerf.net
Sun Jul 15 06:22:20 AEST 1990
In article <1990Jul14.063316.4303 at iwarp.intel.com> merlyn at iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>In article <5133 at darkstar.ucsc.edu>, odin at 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
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