From the Simon Willison/Natalie Downe dream team comes yet another very useful service for Google App Engine developers: jsontime.

I have been meaning to blog about this for some time (no pun intended!)

Simon and Natalie have uploaded the 500 or so files that are in the pytz library so you don't have to and built a JSON API that you can call from your Google App Engine apps.

To get the current time in London, for example, you would call the following URL:

http://json-time.appspot.com/time.json?tz=Europe/London

Check out jsontime.

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