Timezones CLI

CLI toolkit for timezones:zap:

What can you do with timezones-cli? ✨

• Search for date and time based on city, country, or timezones.
• Manage dashboard for timezones you frequently view.
• Get UTC date and time based on your local timezone or any timezones.

Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • Search for timezones
  • Add/save timezones
  • Remove timezones
  • Show saved timezones
  • Select individual timezones from saved
  • Get UTC time
• Run using Docker 🐳
• Contributing

Installation

  $ pip3 install timezones-cli

To run this CLI using Docker, check Run using Docker 🐳.

NOTE: List of country codes or timezone names 🌏

Use -t flag to toggle 24 hours format.

Usage

Search for timezones

Get time based on the entered timezone or country code

• using country code (either 2 or 3 letters):

    $ tz search US
  
    $ tz search USA

• using timezone:

    $ tz search Asia/Kathmandu

• using fuzzy text: (example: Ireland)

    $ tz search Irela

• using timezone shortcodes (--zone or -z flag):

    $ tz search pst -z
  
    $ tz search ist -z
  
    $ tz search jst -z
  
    $ tz search cest -z
  
    $ tz search +0543 -z
  
    $ tz search +05 -z

Demo

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Add/save timezones

Timezones added to the config file are treated as the default timezones which is triggered by the tz show command.

file is stored at ~/.tz-cli

$ tz add "Asia/Kathmandu"

Demo

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Remove timezones

There are two ways for removing timezones from the config file. Using the --interactive mode and passing the the --name flag.

$ tz remove -i

$ tz remove --name "Asia/Kathmandu"

Demo

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Show saved timezones

$ tz show

Demo

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Select individual timezones from saved

$ tz select

Demo

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Get UTC time

Get UTC time based on current system time.

tz utc --help

$ tz utc

Get UTC time based on specified time and timezone.

$ tz utc <time> <timezone>

$ tz utc "11:45PM" "Asia/Kathmandu"

Demo

Run using Docker 🐳

docker pull ghcr.io/yankeexe/timezones-cli:latest

Verify signature of the image: requires cosign.

COSIGN_EXPERIMENTAL=true cosign verify ghcr.io/yankeexe/timezones-cli:latest

Create a config file manually first.

$ touch ~/.tz-cli

$ docker run --rm -it -v ${HOME}/.tz-cli:/home/tz/.tz-cli ghcr.io/yankeexe/timezones-cli search us

For convenience you can add alias of the command to your shell config:

$ echo "alias tz='docker run --rm -it -v ${HOME}/.tz-cli:/home/tz/.tz-cli ghcr.io/yankeexe/timezones-cli'" >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc

$ echo "alias tz='docker run --rm -it -v ${HOME}/.tz-cli:/home/tz/.tz-cli ghcr.io/yankeexe/timezones-cli'" >> ~/.zshrc
$ source ~/.zshrc

# Use alias to invoke timezones-cli
$ tz search Nepal

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For local debugging: Use the make run command followed by the command you want to run against the tz binary.

$ make run cmd="get ist"

Demo

Contributing

For guidance on setting up a development environment and how to make a contribution to timezones-cli, see the contributing guidelines.