[R-sig-Geo] lat/lon to timezone

[Barry Rowlingson]

2008/9/25 Markus Loecher <mao.loecher at gmail.com>:
> Dear geo users,
> pardon this trivial question (I did not succeed in searching the archives):
> is there an R function in one of the many spatial packages which returns the
> time zone for a given lat/lon pair ?

I can't see anything trivial about implementing this:

http://www3.shastacollege.edu/dscollon/images/time_zone_map.JPG

Barry