Subj : Message Timezones
To   : douray
From : echicken
Date : Thu Apr 07 2022 04:14:14

  Re: Message Timezones
  By: douray to echicken on Wed Apr 06 2022 22:12:25

 do> Wow. I wonder why they even bother if it can't at least get you within a
 do> few miles of the actual location. I live nowhere near Roswell, NM, but
 do> that's where the geo-locate ip service thinks I am. 

For some purposes they're close enough often enough. You just can't trust them for anything important.

I had a situation at work early in the pandemic where we just needed to know what country users were connecting from, and it didn't matter if we got it wrong once in a while. I used ipstack.com for that, and they seemed decent.
  
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