Time command

[mainerror]

This should be a low priority feature.

I think it could be useful to have a !!time [location|ISO 8601 time zone designators] command.

Here's how it would work:

• in case no city name or a ISO 8601 time zone designator is provided it assumes and returns UTC time
• in case a city is provided it looks up and returns the time zone for the given city¹
• in case an ISO 8601 time zone designator is provided it returns the appropriate time²

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Footnotes

1. Obviously that requires an appropriate API, if you know of an API that provides the described functionality please post a link.
2. This does not necessarily require an API, one could fetch the UTC time and return it ± the offset.

[Shmiddty]

Seems somewhat useful, sure.

[ralt]

:+1:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/timezone/

[Zirak]

The problem is finding a decent API. Things like @Ralt show require (lat,lng) which are quite not what we're looking for, and the scarce few who do search by city cost monies (I'm a freeloader).

If this ever moves to node though whistles nervously, we'll have a tz database (/usr/share/zoneinfo), which is at least something.

[caub]

with google reverse geo mapping? !!time Honolulu

[FirstWhack]

Why would we need to use an API? Just using TimeZones should be enough. No one needs to search by city. Then it's just a simple timestamp changed per timezone.

[caub]

the more cool thing would be to query it for user, !!time Zirak and have a result of its timezoned time, based on an algorithm that checks its active hours :)

[mainerror]

@Jhawins Simple example. Without looking it up, what timezone is Tokyo or Mumbai in? See?

@cx11 Maybe in a later iteration, the important functionality would be to get it per city.

[Zirak]

Does this look good enough?