Feature request: support entering location as place name

[vladh]

The user should be able to enter their location in the form "London, UK" or similar. Currently, the only options are geolocation (which people might not want to enable, as I don't) or entering your latitude and longitude (which is cumbersome to figure out).

I don't have time to contribute this right now, but might in the future, so I thought I would open an issue for now.

[virtualgeoff]

I agree that would be a useful feature. I'll look into it.

[goyalyashpal]

• while i can see the appeal of it,
• i do think that adding the geolocation in coordinates is actually better, as this shows the transition of times according to true local sun-time,
• rather than just the "standard" time of the place, which is usually off by upto half hour.

[goyalyashpal]

So, a correct way in my opinion is to find a middle ground:

• add a note that: "Please add geolocation for showing the true-local sun-phases" (or times of day? or whatever that's called

And:

• Picking the location based on "Standard times of countries" like London, UK mentioned above, will actually (internally) be picking the related coordinate,
• and there will be an option to specify an offset - maybe aided with a preview of world map
• the offset set to zero by default

Though the idea of offset may seem weird - but it will add more emphasize on the importance of true local sun time, which is all this sun clock is about.