Ask HN: Is there a free list of cities mapped to their tz database time zones?
For instance, Boston maps to "America/New_York", Amman, Jordan maps to "Asia/Amman", etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#Legend
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For a list of places the files on http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ have a column for the timezone name. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
There are places, usually unhabitated who don't have a good timezone name, but just 'GMT-10' or such. With cities you likely don't encounter this. Short names, e.g. EET, aren't unique. There are several who share the same abbreviation.
Mapping city to location is a classic geocoding task, for which there's APIs and tools around.