Hello, It would be nice to report a timezone offset for each probe via the probe API. Since measurements are reported in UTC, it's currently difficult to visualise a timeseries result in the local time of the probe. In order to do this, one has to turn the geolocations (currently reported in the probe API) of the probe to the corresponding timezone offset (which takes time) and then adjust the measurement timestamps by the timezone offset. It would be great if the timezone offsets of the probe are available via API. Thanks! PS: This is very low priority request. Best, Vaibhav ===================================================== Vaibhav Bajpai Room 91, Research I School of Engineering and Sciences Jacobs University Bremen, Germany www.vaibhavbajpai.com =====================================================
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 02:12:35PM +0000, Bajpai, Vaibhav <v.bajpai@jacobs-university.de> wrote a message of 65 lines which said:
It would be great if the timezone offsets of the probe are available via API.
But how would the probe learn it? It is not sent in the DHCP answer.
On 27 Nov 2015, at 15:29, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
It would be great if the timezone offsets of the probe are available via API.
But how would the probe learn it? It is not sent in the DHCP answer.
No no, the probe does not need to learn it. The timezone offset can be derived from the latitude / longitude (provided by the probe owner during registration; currently available via probe API). As long as the geolocation does not change, so does the timezone offset. It's possible to do this in the analysis phase as well, but it takes time to calculate these offsets for ~9K probes. Therefore, was thinking, perhaps a field in the probe API would save time. Best, Vaibhav ===================================================== Vaibhav Bajpai Room 91, Research I School of Engineering and Sciences Jacobs University Bremen, Germany www.vaibhavbajpai.com =====================================================
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