node-worldtime

This command-line application was created by Stefan Klinkusch at Digital Career Institute in Berlin, Germany. It consumes the World Time API.

Features

It has three main modes:

• showing a thank you message
• showing a list of timezones
• showing the current time for a given timezone

Techniques

• JavaScript
• Node.js

Manual

Setup of the package

1. Clone the repository using git clone git@github.com:sklinkusch/node-worldtime.git (SSH) or git clone https://github.com/sklinkusch/node-worldtime (HTTPS).
2. Move into the directory node-worldtime and run npm install or yarn.

Making requests

Showing help text

Type: node index.js --help. The output is

You need to provide an area (continent) and a major city.

Showing list of timezones

Type node index.js --options. The output is a list of timezones:

{ area: 'Africa', region: 'Abidjan', city: undefined }
{ area: 'Africa', region: 'Accra', city: undefined }
{ area: 'Africa', region: 'Algiers', city: undefined }
{ area: 'Africa', region: 'Bissau', city: undefined }
{ area: 'Africa', region: 'Cairo', city: undefined }
...
{ area: 'Pacific', region: 'Tarawa', city: undefined }
{ area: 'Pacific', region: 'Tongatapu', city: undefined }
{ area: 'Pacific', region: 'Wake', city: undefined }
{ area: 'Pacific', region: 'Wallis', city: undefined }
{ area: 'WET', region: undefined, city: undefined }

Showing current time for a given timezone

Type node index.js $AREA $REGION $CITY with $AREA as a continent/area from the list, $REGION as a matching region or city and $CITY as a matching city from the list (area, region, and city should appear as a valid triplet). The last two parameters can be omitted, if they are not defined for a timezone, e.g. node index.js Europe Berlin. The output should look like

11.07.2019 10:46:39