[postgis-users] OT: shapes of time zones?

[Alex Mayrhofer]

Paul Hastings wrote:
>> is anybody aware of publicly availably shape files of time zones? I'm trying
> 
> manifold used to have something on their site. i don't recall if it
> actually has tz info from the olsen data or just the offsets but at
> least the UTC offsets.
> 

Paul,

thanks for that excellent hint, i found the database here:

http://www.manifold.net/download/freemaps.html

However, the ftp server which hosts the file is currently refusing data 
connections - so it's right now like window shopping :-/

cheers

Alex
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