Time and Timezone workflow

[MacDaddy]

I'm trying to see if ther eis a way that I can use Workflows to automatically paste time zone differences. 

Example: trigger using ;time and a text field pops up where I enter a time, let's say 2:00pm and then when I hit enter, in the Clipboard is 2:00pm/12:30pm EST

 

My timezone has an extra 30mins and it screws up a lot of people, so if I could do something like this to easily post the time conversion based on the time I enter, that would be awesome, just not sure how I would make it happen. 

[FireFingers21]

@MacDaddy This shell command could be a good starting point, it takes an input (2:00pm) and outputs it to the timezone set by the TZ variable (3:00PM EDT):

TZ="America/New_York" date -jf "%s" "$(date -jf "%I:%M%p" "$1" +"%s")" +"%I:%M%p %Z"

 

This uses the built-in date command twice to convert a time ($1) from your local timezone to the timezone specified by the TZ variable (America/New_York).

 

For the use case you've outlined, you can use that command in a Run Script object. Input a time using the Keyword object and output the Run Script to a Copy to Clipboard Output. Make sure to set the TZ variable to the actual timezone you need.

 

Feel free to drop any other questions you may have, including clarifications on how the date command works if you need to modify it.

[giovanni]

@MacDaddy I created a quick Workflow that should do what you want. You can set the source and target timezone codes in configuration, and trigger it in one of three ways: 1) keyword (default tzz), 2) Universal Action (after selecting text with a time), or 3) via snippet (which you can set to ;time as you describe).

Enter will copy to clipboard/paste. 

[MacDaddy]

On 8/7/2024 at 6:47 AM, giovanni said:

@MacDaddy I created a quick Workflow that should do what you want. You can set the source and target timezone codes in configuration, and trigger it in one of three ways: 1) keyword (default tzz), 2) Universal Action (after selecting text with a time), or 3) via snippet (which you can set to ;time as you describe).

Enter will copy to clipboard/paste. 

 

Thank you so much! I'll give this a try at work tomorrow when I have my Alfred. 

[MacDaddy]

@giovanni So sorry about my delay in responding. I tried this out and it works fantastic! Thank you so much. This is going to save me so much effort at work with the EST folks