Get the time zone used at the given coordinates

This package can convert GPS coordinates to time zones using Google's Time Zone service. Here's a quick example:

GoogleTimeZone::getTimeZoneForCoordinates('51.2194475', '4.4024643');

// Will return this array
[
    "dstOffset" => 0
    "rawOffset" => 3600
    "timeZoneId" => "Europe/Brussels"
    "timeZoneName" => "Central European Standard Time"
]

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Installation

You can install this package through composer.

composer require spatie/google-time-zone

Laravel installation

Though the package works fine in non-Laravel projects we've included some niceties for our fellow Artisans.

In Laravel will autoregister the package itself, but you should still publish the config file yourself.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\GoogleTimeZone\GoogleTimeZoneServiceProvider" --tag="config"

This is the content of the config file:

return [
    /*
     * The api key used when sending timezone requests to Google.
     */
    'key' => env('GOOGLE_MAPS_TIMEZONE_API_KEY', ''),

    /*
     * The language param used to set response translations for textual data.
     *
     * More info: https://developers.google.com/maps/faq#languagesupport
     */
    'language' => '',
];

Usage

Here's how you can get the time zone for a given set of coordinates.

$googleTimeZone = new GoogleTimeZone();

$googleTimeZone->setApiKey(config('google-time-zone.key'));

$googleTimeZone->getTimeZoneForCoordinates('51.2194475', '4.4024643');

/*
// Will return this array
[
    "dstOffset" => 0
    "rawOffset" => 3600
    "timeZoneId" => "Europe/Brussels"
    "timeZoneName" => "Central European Standard Time"
]
*/

You can get the result back in a specific language.

$googleTimeZone
   ->setLanguage('nl')
   ->getTimeZoneForCoordinates('51.2194475', '4.4024643');

/*
// Will return this array
[
      "dstOffset" => 0
      "rawOffset" => 3600
      "timeZoneId" => "Europe/Brussels"
      "timeZoneName" => "Midden-Europese standaardtijd"
]
*/

It is possible to specify a timestamp for the location so that daylight savings can be taken into account. We will set this timestamp to the current time by default.

$googleTimeZone
   ->setTimestamp(new DateTime('13 august 2018'))
   ->getTimeZoneForCoordinates('51.2194475', '4.4024643');

/*
// Will return this array
[
      "dstOffset" => 3600
      "rawOffset" => 3600
      "timeZoneId" => "Europe/Brussels"
      "timeZoneName" => "Central European Summer Time"
]
*/

If you are using the package with Laravel, you can simply call getTimeZoneForCoordinates.

GoogleTimeZone::getTimeZoneForCoordinates('51.2194475', '4.4024643');

/*
// Will return this array
[
    "dstOffset" => 0
    "rawOffset" => 3600
    "timeZoneId" => "Europe/Brussels"
    "timeZoneName" => "Central European Standard Time"
]
*/

When no time zone was found null will be returned.

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You're free to use this package, but if it makes it to your production environment we highly appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using.

Our address is: Spatie, Kruikstraat 22, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium.

We publish all received postcards on our company website.

Credits

• Ruben Van Assche
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.