peoj
Determining the current system timezone
How can I determine the current timezone of the local system (e.g. Etc/UTC)?
This approach would work for me, but seems like I must be missing a built-in API of some sort!
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app logic can/should be in a way that the server timezone is irrelevant.. aka always Start with DateTime.utc_now() or similar in the logic and go from there..
anyways, maybe something like
iex(20)> :calendar.time_difference(:calendar.universal_time, :calendar.local_time )
{0, {2, 0, 0}}
(I’m utc+2 currently)
pretty sure elixir doesn’t expose it.. since it’s a very bad path to venture down of.. time is hard enough as it is..
craig
reading timex’s source on how it looks up local time was really informative, they have a lot of sane fallbacks and os-specific lookup methods
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DarckBlezzer
I know this post is old but what about this?
I only test this on Ubuntu…
System.shell("timedatectl | grep 'Time zone' | awk '{print $3}'")
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