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GeoClue TZ: Privacy-First Linux Location Service (thoughts.greyh.at)
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[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Interesting. Possibly useful to some. I have also discovered that the simplest, most privacy-friendly way to update location is just to do it manually when you change location.

I have a simple script that does this by querying OpenStreetMap's Nominatim server with the city name. It feeds the resulting coordinates thru a Python library that deduces the timezone, and sets the system time to this.

[-] Quail4789@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

That image would make a great wallpaper without the project's name on it.

[-] Hirom@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

Then someone will write an utility that automatically sets timezone using geoclue location data.

[-] zquestz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

They could if GeoClue was reliable. The problem is that it often doesn't work, so I doubt anyone would want to use it as a source to set their time zone.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

EDIT: I'm so happy.

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Ah, ok, got a little confused... GeoClue TZ is an improvement on GeoClue

I didn't even know this was a thing, I just dealt with this manually - now feeling a little silly.

this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2024
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