wtime

[machinebacon]

Shows the time and date in other time zones. Taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3700 ... orld-clock and modified to make it work in Debian

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#!/bin/sh
search=$1
zoneinfo=/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/*/*
format='%a %F %T'
find $zoneinfo \
    | grep -i "$search" \
    | while read z
      do
          d=$(TZ=$z date +"$format")
          printf "%-34s %23s\n" ${z#$zoneinfo} "$d"
      done

Usage:

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wtime Berlin
wtime new YorK
wtime Australia

[wuxmedia]

cool, handy - seeing as I think every one of us is in a differnet zone 8)

[pidsley]

Nice script! I had an idea for a modification -- if people post their timezones, I could modify the script to tell us what time it is for each user -- "wtime wuxmedia" would tell us what time it is in wux land. If there is any interest, please post your timezone, or what you use for /etc/localtime. I use "America/Los_Angeles"

[dkeg]

Yes, good idea.

America/New_York

[machinebacon]

Great idea, Asia/Shanghai


Edit:

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bbq@grill:~$ cat /etc/localtime 
CST-8

[wuxmedia]

I'm in my own zone, man 8)
nah:

Europe/London

[paolo]

Great !
For me Europe/Rome

[kexolino]

Good stuff. Europe/Belgrade here.

[GekkoP]

Europe/Rome here.

[dkeg]

don't mean to derail, but cat /etc/localtime just spit out a bunch of nonesense.

My time is set, but I also ran, with no change

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/usr/bin/tzselect

and

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dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

[bones]

America/Los_Angeles

[machinebacon]

@drew, check the second line in your /etc/localtime, that's the right format :)

[pidsley]

Sorry dkeg. Try "cat /etc/timezone" on Debian.

[wei2912]

We could have a bot in the channel for that? :D

Asia/Singapore, GMT +8

[pidsley]

Ok, here's what I have so far. Here is the list:

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pidsley America/Los_Angeles
bones America/Los_Angeles
dkeg America/New_York
machinebacon Asia/Shanghai
wuxmedia Europe/London
paolo Europe/Rome
kexolino Europe/Belgrade
GekkoP Europe/Rome
wei2912 Asia/Singapore
rhowaldt Europe/Amsterdam
Alad Europe/Brussels
zazen23 America/Chicago
kiiroitori Asia/Tokyo

Note that user names cannot contain spaces. If more people provide information, simply add them to the list.

And here is the script.

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#!/bin/bash

# script to print the current time for a list of users
# call with no arguments to print the entire list
# call with username to print for just that user
# username is not case sensitive, and you may specify only the first few letters
# for example "utime wux" will show you the current time for wuxmedia

ZONELIST=~/.config/utime/ulist # change this if you put the list somewhere else

print-time() {
    [[ $1 = "" ]] && exit
    echo "$1  $(TZ=$2 date)  $2"
}

shopt -s nocasematch    # make string compares not case sensitive
while read line; do
    if [[ $1 = "" ]]; then # no user name specified, print all
        print-time $line
    elif [[ $line =~ ^$1 ]]; then # user name specified and found
        print-time $line
        exit
    fi
done < $ZONELIST

[[ $1 != "" ]] && echo "could not find user $1"

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$ utime kex
kexolino   Sun Jun 29 17:15:10 CEST 2014   Europe/Belgrade

[wuxmedia]

nice array :)

[dkeg]

pidsley, thanks, nice work on the expansion of the script. Should be helpful before heading into IRC.

Edit: Some cleanup. /etc/timezone worked fine. and rho, I add you to my list!

[rhowaldt]

fwiw: europe/amsterdam here

[pidsley]

^ thanks. Added to the list.

[Alad]

Europe/Brussels.