when 2.0.0

Usage

To access city names, you must install the cities database, downloaded from http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/citiesXXX.zip - depending upon where you specify the --size [500|1000|5000|15000] or --pop POP option(s).

$ when --help
usage: when [-h] [-s SOURCE] [-t TARGET] [-f FORMAT] [--all] [--holidays HOLIDAYS] [-v] [-V] [--pdb] [--db] [--search SEARCH] [--alias ALIAS] [--size SIZE]
            [--pop POP]
            [timestamp ...]

Convert times to and from time zones or cities

positional arguments:
  timestamp             Timestamp to parse, defaults to local time

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s SOURCE, --source SOURCE
                        Timezone / city to convert the timestamp from, defaulting to local time
  -t TARGET, --target TARGET
                        Timezone / city to convert the timestamp to (globbing patterns allowed, can be comma delimited), defaulting to local time
  -f FORMAT, --format FORMAT
                        Output formatting. Additionaly predefined formats by name are rfc2822, iso, . Default: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z (%Z) %jd%Ww %C %O, where %K
                        is timezone long name
  --all                 Show times in all common timezones
  --holidays HOLIDAYS   Show holidays for given country code.
  -v, --verbosity       Verbosity (-v, -vv, etc)
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
  --pdb
  --db                  Togge database mode, used with --search, --alias, --size, and --pop
  --search SEARCH       Search database for the given city (used with --db)
  --alias ALIAS         (Used with --db) Create a new alias from the city id
  --size SIZE           (Used with --db) Geonames file size. Can be one of 1000, 500, 15000, 5000.
  --pop POP             (Used with --db) City population minimum.

Examples:
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# Show the time in a given source city or time zone

when --source New York City
when --source America/New_York

# Show the specified time at a given source in local time

when --source Paris,FR 21:35

# Show the specified time at a given source in the target locale's time

when --target Bangkok --source Seattle

Example

$ when
2023-02-11 17:43:44+0900 (KST) 042d06w  [🌖 Waning Gibbous]

$ when --source CST
2023-02-11 02:44:22-0600 (Central Standard Time) 042d06w  [🌖 Waning Gibbous]
2023-02-11 12:44:22+0400 (Caucasus Standard Time) 042d06w  [🌖 Waning Gibbous]
2023-02-11 16:44:22+0800 (China Standard Time) 042d06w  [🌖 Waning Gibbous]
2023-02-11 03:44:22-0500 (Cuba Standard Time) 042d06w  [🌖 Waning Gibbous]

$ when --source Paris
2023-02-11 09:45:11+0100 (Europe/Paris) 042d06w  (Villeparisis, FR, Île-de-France) [🌖 Waning Gibbous]
2023-02-11 09:45:11+0100 (Europe/Paris) 042d06w  (Paris, FR, Île-de-France) [🌖 Waning Gibbous]
2023-02-11 09:45:11+0100 (Europe/Paris) 042d06w  (Cormeilles-en-Parisis, FR, Île-de-France) [🌖 Waning Gibbous]
2023-02-11 03:45:11-0500 (America/Port-au-Prince) 042d06w  (Fond Parisien, HT, Ouest) [🌖 Waning Gibbous]
2023-02-11 02:45:11-0600 (America/Chicago) 042d06w  (Paris, US, Texas) [🌖 Waning Gibbous]

$ when --source "San Francisco,US" --target America/New_York Mar 7 1945 7:00pm
1945-03-07 22:00:00-0400 (America/New_York) 066d10w  [🌘 Waning Crescent]
1945-03-07 22:00:00-0400 (America/New_York) 066d10w  [🌘 Waning Crescent]

Develop

Requirements Python 3.7+

$ git clone git@github.com:dakrauth/when.git
$ cd when
$ python -mvenv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install .
$ when --help
$ when --db
$ pip install tox
$ tox