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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Hi All<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I’m new to python (4 days </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><span lang=EN-GB>) and was wondering if anyone out there can help me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I am trying to get the time zones for latitude and longitude coordinates but am having a few problems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The mistakes are probably very basic<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I have a table in a database with around 600 rows. Each row contains a lat long coordinate for somewhere in the world<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I found a piece of code [http://blog.pamelafox.org/2012/04/converting-addresses-to-timezones-in.html] which uses the function [https://gist.github.com/pamelafox/2288222]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>When I try to run the code, I get the error geonames is not defined (This is the function previously linked to)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB># Converts latitude longitude into a time zone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB># REF: https://gist.github.com/pamelafox/2288222<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB># REF: http://blog.pamelafox.org/2012/04/converting-addresses-to-timezones-in.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>geonames_client = geonames.GeonamesClient('Username_alpha')<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>geonames_result = geonames_client.find_timezone({'lat': 48.871236, 'lng': 2.77928})<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>user.timezone = geonames_result['timezoneId']<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>