ts 1.0.0

an Abbot package for Slack by Serious Business

Decode a timestamp

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We built Abbot because we saw the power of this style of work (called ChatOps), when we worked at GitHub. ChatOps made it possible for GitHub to work productively without meetings, while globally distributed. We think it's a pretty great way to work, so we made it easy to use in Slack, Discord, and Microsoft Teams.

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Convert a unix timestamp to a date time object in UTC.

If your time zone or location are set in Abbot (by saying @abbot my location is {your location}), it will also convert the time to your local time.

Convert to a different time zone by adding the time zone to convert to as a second argument. Because abbreviations may conflict (there are multiple IST and CST time zones, for example), you must specify in a format like Asia/Kolkata or America/Los_Angeles.

from datetime import datetime
from pytz import timezone

args = bot.arguments.split(" ")

ts = None
if len(args[0]) == 16:
    ts = int(args[0]) / 1_000_000
elif len(args[0]) == 12:
    ts = int(args[0]) / 100
elif len(args[0]) == 8:
    ts = int(args[0])

if ts:    
    dt = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(int(ts))
    bot.reply("The time was: {} UTC".format(dt))
    if len(args) > 1:
      try:
        tz = timezone(args[1])
        bot.reply("({} in {})".format(dt.astimezone(tz), args[1]))
      except:
        bot.reply("Couldn't figure out that timezone. Use a format like Asia/Kolkata to specify timezone.")
    elif bot.from_user.timezone:
        tz = timezone(bot.from_user.timezone.id)
        bot.reply("({} in {})".format(dt.astimezone(tz), tz))
else:
    bot.reply("That doesn't seem like a valid timestamp.")

Version	Created	Author	Release Notes	Installs
1.0.0	7/9/2024	Paul	First release!	2

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Last updated: Friday, 09 July 2024 04:55
Installs: 2 total installs
Language: Python
License: MIT License

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