jdev - 2026-03-22

lovetox, re your issue fetching the timezone, on systemd-compatible distributions (so almost all of them) that’d be: % busctl get-property org.freedesktop.timedate1 /org/freedesktop/timedate1 org.freedesktop.timedate1 Timezone s "Europe/Paris"

You can translate that into dbus calls using your dbus library of choice.

simply read a file which works on 100% of linux/bsd installs, or implement some complicated hack that only works on a subset... hmm hard choice

I found that GLib implements getting the timezone for mac, linux and windows

> simply read a file which works on 100% of linux/bsd installs, or implement some complicated hack that only works on a subset... hmm hard choice Or use a library and not do it yourself by hand at all ↺

now the next challenge is, of course windows invented their own timezone names which do not follow any standard :D

classic

> now the next challenge is, of course windows invented their own timezone names which do not follow any standard :D If I had a dollar for every time this happens, I'd be a billionaire ↺

Or.. would be able to buy a single stick of DDR5 64GB RAM ✏

that's a lot of sticks!

gonna buy them all out so there's none for the rest of the world and their competition can't compete. Such billionaire