System Time Zone

[Richmond]

 From an offset from GMT it is easy enough with this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/World_Time_Zones_Map.png

to run up a listField with timezones and their countries as a sort of 
ad-hoc lookup table.

On 14.09.22 18:38, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
> The original poster does not want to have the offset, but the time zone country/city and he already had a solution with apple script.
> I provided a solution just with the shell function.
>
>
>> Am 14.09.2022 um 17:21 schrieb Richmond via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>
>> That seems a bit unnecessary as 'internet date' produces a format that includes the GMT offset.
>>
>> So when I write this in the messageBox:  put the internet date
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> Wed, 14 Sep 2022 18:19:18 +0300
>>
>> and, obviously, from the +0300 it is dead easy to work out
>>
>> my system time zone.
>>
>> Love, Richmond.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14.09.22 18:09, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Does your app has preferences the user can enter? Why not allow him to enter also the sudo password?
>>> You could then use that to execute the following shell command:
>>>
>>> put shell("echo <password> | sudo -S /usr/sbin/systemsetup -gettimezone")
>>>
>>> replace <password> with the password in preferences. No need to use Applescript.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Am 14.09.2022 um 15:50 schrieb Bob Cole via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Just for the sake of completeness, there is a way to get the time zone with AppleScript but it requires Administrator Privileges. The MacOS pops up a request to allow the “do as AppleScript” script to access the systemsetup function. That manual step will interfere with the flow of the program.
>>>>
>>>> Create a field “Statements” with this AppleScript:
>>>>
>>>> do shell script "/usr/sbin/systemsetup -gettimezone" with administrator privileges
>>>>
>>>> and put the following code in the script of a button:
>>>>
>>>> on mouseUp
>>>>    do field "Statements" as "AppleScript"
>>>>    put the result into tResult
>>>>    set the itemDelimiter to space
>>>>    delete word 1 to 2 in tResult
>>>>    delete the last char of tResult
>>>>    put tResult into message box
>>>> end request
>>>>
>>>> Tested in two time zones with these results:
>>>> America/Chicago
>>>> America/New_York
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>>> It's the, "America/Los_Angeles" bit I am trying to find a way to grok.
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