[SOLVED] help with timezone script

amaro · 2020-08-24 03:34:56

Hello everybody,

I have this script that shows diff time zones

cat /usr/local/bin/tz

#!/bin/sh
#
# alias tz='/usr/local/tz'
#
# Access available time zones in /usr/share/zoneinfo

TIME_ZONES="Europe/GMT US/Eastern US/Central US/Pacific"
OUTPUT=""

for loc in $TIME_ZONES; do
	CITY=`echo $loc | sed 's/\// /g' | awk '{ print $2 }'`
	CUR_TIME=`TZ=${loc} date | awk '{ print $2 " " $3 " " $5 " " $6 }'`
	TEMP=`awk -v l="$CITY" -v t="$CUR_TIME" 'BEGIN { print l "\t" t }'`
	OUTPUT="${OUTPUT}\n${TEMP}"
done

echo -e $OUTPUT | column -t | tr '_' ' '

Two days ago it stopped working.

What might be causing that and how to solve it.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

p.s. I did not write the script. Got it from somewhere and modified it because initially it was not working.

Last edited by amaro (2020-08-24 06:11:39)

fukawi2 · 2020-08-24 04:04:10

amaro wrote:

Two days ago it stopped working.

Define "stopped working".

amaro · 2020-08-24 04:19:16

Sorry about that

Thought I posted the output

Here it is

GMT      Aug  24  AM  Europe
Eastern  Aug  24  AM  EDT
Central  Aug  23  PM  CDT
Pacific  Aug  23  PM  PDT

Last edited by amaro (2020-08-24 04:29:30)

seth · 2020-08-24 05:25:59

Quick, before Trilby wakes up to a cardiac arrest… ;-)

#!/bin/bash
#
# alias tz='/usr/local/tz'
#
# Access available time zones in /usr/share/zoneinfo

export LC_ALL=C # AC/PM locale. Stupid Americans. The day has 24 fucking hours. Ask your army. Knuckleheads.
TIME_ZONES="Europe/GMT US/Eastern US/Central US/Pacific"

for loc in $TIME_ZONES; do
    printf "${loc##*/} "
    TZ=${loc} date '+%b %e %I:%M %P %Z' # check date --help for more format options
done | column -t

amaro · 2020-08-24 06:10:29

@seth

Works fine
Looks better

Thank you, seth!

p.s. Deleted the comments. Hope you don't mind.

Last edited by amaro (2020-08-24 06:15:44)

seth · 2020-08-24 07:11:55

Why would I?
Still true, though ... ;-P

(I just got briefly angry, because the script didn't work and there was no good reason - then I figured that the locale for am/pm was that this nonsense doesn't exist here ;-)

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[SOLVED] help with timezone script

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