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		eli on Aug 8, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop asking users for their timezone – use per-dev... Geolocating the timezone based on IP is so fragile and likely to fail that IMHO it's not nearly worth the time to implement.

justincormack on Aug 8, 2013 [–]

Indeed and will get worse with ipv6 rollout no doubt.

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