Re:Ask HN: Is there a free list of cities mapped to their tz...
by mtmail on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:31AM
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We (https://opencagedata.com/demo) return that as part of our geocoding results. If you have only a couple of hundred cities it's still within the free trial plan
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.
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.