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Dear Google Support,

Recently we encountered an issue when calling google API (https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/timezone/json) to get the timezone information of this location (latitude=37.9688, longitude=-87.5714). Could you please help take a look at this issue and suggest how we can get this resolved?

This location (latitude=37.9688, longitude=-87.5714) is near Evansville, and we know they're using Central Time (CST / CDT) instead of Eastern Time (EST / EDT).

We called the following Google API:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/timezone/json?key={key}&latitude=37.9688&longitude=-87.5714&timestamp=1706679094

Current Google response:
{
dstOffset: 0
rawOffset: -18000
status:OK
timeZoneId:America/Indiana/Indianapolis
timeZoneName:Eastern Standard Time
}

We expect to receive "America/Chicago" as timeZoneId, and "Central Standard Time" as timeZoneName, and "-21600" as rawOffset for this location (latitude=37.9688, longitude=-87.5714).


Reference:
1) Search “37.968800, -87.571400” in Google, we could see this location is in Evansville.
2) Search “Evansville timezone” in Google, we could see timezone is Central Standard Time (GMT-6) at this time of the year.
3) Refer to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana), this location should be using Central Time instead of Eastern Time.

Thanks & Regards,
Leo Bi