Getting Time Zone from Lat Long Coordinates?

Question

I am trying to get the time zones for latitude and longitude coordinates but am having a few problems The mistakes are probably very basic

I have a table in a database with around 600 rows. Each row contains a lat long coordinate for somewhere in the world I want to feed these co-ordinates into a function and then retrieve the time zone. The aim being to convert events which have a local time stamp within each of these 600 places into UTC time

I found a blog post which uses a piece of code to derive timezones from geographical coordinates.

When I try to run the code, I get the error geonames is not defined. I have applied for an account with geonames.

I think I have just saved the function file in the wrong directory or something simple. Can anyone help

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# Converts latitude longitude into a time zone
# REF: https://gist.github.com/pamelafox/2288222
# REF: http://blog.pamelafox.org/2012/04/converting-addresses-to-timezones-in.html
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

geonames_client = geonames.GeonamesClient('Username_alpha')
geonames_result = geonames_client.find_timezone({'lat': 48.871236, 'lng': 2.77928})
user.timezone = geonames_result['timezoneId']

Answer 1

With tzwhere and pytz:

import datetime
import pytz
from tzwhere import tzwhere

tzwhere = tzwhere.tzwhere()
timezone_str = tzwhere.tzNameAt(37.3880961, -5.9823299) # Seville coordinates
timezone_str
#> Europe/Madrid

timezone = pytz.timezone(timezone_str)
dt = datetime.datetime.now()
timezone.utcoffset(dt)
#> datetime.timedelta(0, 7200)