An utility for iOS and OSX developers to simplify extracting NSTimeZone from a given CLLocation.
You can do the same job by calling Google API or Yahoo API but APTimeZones works locally, offline and with no limits inherented to hosted solutions.
Usage:
//Ukraine location
CLLocation *location = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:50.449846
longitude:30.523629];
NSTimeZone *timeZone = [[APTimeZones sharedInstance] timeZoneWithLocation:location];
NSLog(@"%@", timeZone);You can use APTimeZones with CLGeocoder as well to receive NSTimeZone for a given city string.
CLGeocoder *geocoder = [[CLGeocoder alloc] init];
[geocoder geocodeAddressString:@"New York" completionHandler:^(NSArray *placemarks, NSError *error) {
if (placemarks.count) {
CLPlacemark *placemark = placemarks[0];
CLLocation *location = placemark.location;
NSString *countryCode = placemark.addressDictionary[@"CountryCode"];
NSTimeZone *timeZone = [[APTimeZones sharedInstance] timeZoneWithLocation:location
countryCode:countryCode];
NSLog(@"%@", timeZone);
}
}];Version 1.1:
We've added some handy categories with version 1.1 to make timezones magic even more easy.
CLLocation+APTimeZones CLPlacemark+APTimeZones
CLLocation *location = ...
NSLog(@"%@", location.timeZone);
CLPlacemark *placemark = ...;
NSLog(@"%@", placemark.timeZone);Also, we've added example project that shows APTimeZones usage [Demo Video on YouTube]:
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APTimeZones requires ARC.
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