A command line world clock
I have friends, family, and co-workers all over the globe. Totally sick of forgetting their time zone and googling the time in Istanbul or Berlin, I wanted to be able to easily get the time anywhere in the world from my command line.
It's as easy as $ ruhr berlin
The first time you run ruhr, it will send get the geospatial data from https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/search.html and then get the timezone using tzf-rs using the latitude and longitude data. The name of the place along with the timezone is then cached in an sqlite database. Easy peasy.
If you run the command without any extra arguments, you will currently get only the top result back from open street maps. You might need to add differentiating information:
$ ruhr berlin new jersey
Will return the time in: Berlin, New Jersey, USA -- otherwise, it will be Berlin, Germany.
Currently, you can add the command --verbose to and receive :
$ ruhr berlin -v
$ Berlin, Germany 2024-06-20 02:00:45 Europe/Berlin
You can also add an alias to a place:
$ ruhr berlin new jersey -a berlinj
$ Berlin, Camden County, New Jersey, United States 2024-06-19 20:01:34 America/New_York
$ ruhr berlinj
$ 20:02 EDT
$ ruhr berlin
$ 02:02 CEST
You can install using $ cargo install ruhr
I'd be happy to accept contributions, there are quite a few features I would like to add so if you find this tool useful please reach out!