Well, IDEALLY I would like a way that does not involve a lookup list, but I do
not think that is possible. I already downloaded an official list of time zones
in the proper format, and their standard and savings time offsets. That should
be close enough. Another thing I can do is in a settings p
https://use-livecode.runrev.narkive.com/PhNgjt9Q/time-problems-with-daylight-saving
On 14.09.22 19:01, Richmond wrote:
From an offset from GMT it is easy enough with this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/World_Time_Zones_Map.png
to run up a listField with timezones and t
That was my first thought too and I (erroneously) suggested the internet
"time", which should have been "date". I found a ready-made lookup list and
began experimenting. No go.
You have to know whether the area is on daylight savings time because the
offset changes. You also need to know the l
From an offset from GMT it is easy enough with this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/World_Time_Zones_Map.png
to run up a listField with timezones and their countries as a sort of
ad-hoc lookup table.
On 14.09.22 18:38, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
The original
I am simply trying to present a solution that works:
1. 100% in LiveCode.
2. 100% cross-platform.
Richmond.
On 14.09.22 18:38, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
The original poster does not want to have the offset, but the time zone
country/city and he already had a solution with apple
Ah: sorry, I had no idea (having come late to the party) that you were
wanting to interact
with iCal.
That does look like a bit of a headache:
https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-2-19-time-zone-identifier.html
Richmond.
On 14.09.22 18:35, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
It's not d
The original poster does not want to have the offset, but the time zone
country/city and he already had a solution with apple script.
I provided a solution just with the shell function.
> Am 14.09.2022 um 17:21 schrieb Richmond via use-livecode
> :
>
> That seems a bit unnecessary as 'internet
It's not dead easy from the perspective of iCalendar syntax. Zones are defined
by text strings. I will need a lookup table for that.
Bob S
On Sep 14, 2022, at 08:21 , Richmond via use-livecode
mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
That seems a bit unnecessary as 'internet date' produc
That seems a bit unnecessary as 'internet date' produces a format that
includes the GMT offset.
So when I write this in the messageBox: put the internet date
I get:
Wed, 14 Sep 2022 18:19:18 +0300
and, obviously, from the +0300 it is dead easy to work out
my system time zone.
Love, Richmon
Does your app has preferences the user can enter? Why not allow him to enter
also the sudo password?
You could then use that to execute the following shell command:
put shell("echo | sudo -S /usr/sbin/systemsetup -gettimezone")
replace with the password in preferences. No need to use Applescri
Just for the sake of completeness, there is a way to get the time zone with
AppleScript but it requires Administrator Privileges. The MacOS pops up a
request to allow the “do as AppleScript” script to access the systemsetup
function. That manual step will interfere with the flow of the program.
You can get the timezone of a widget, get a list of ALL time zones, convert to
and from universal time. There is no way it seems to geet the current time zone
of the system.
Bob S
> On Sep 7, 2022, at 22:59 , Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Bob Sneidar via use-livecode Wed,
Returns PDT. I will now have to get a list of all time zone abbreviations and
do a lookup table.
Bob S
On Sep 7, 2022, at 17:14 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode
mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
osx:
put word -2 of shell("date")
___
use-
Bob Sneidar via use-livecode Wed, 07 Sep 2022 16:49:43 -0700
Isn't there some kind of function that will return the
current system's time zone?
Hi Bob,
there is a timeZone library in LC, maybe that is of help.
Please be aware that some entries in the timeZone library are deprecated.
https://qu
"The internet time" gives you the offset from Greenwich time. No city though.
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On September 7, 2022 6:50:09 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
wrote:
Hi all.
I am exploring the possibility o
On 9/7/22 16:47, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
It's the, "America/Los_Angeles" bit I am trying to find a way to grok. How can
I extract that in LC? Isn't there some kind of function that will return the current
system's time zone?
linux:
put the last word of shell("date")
osx:
put wor
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