Subj : Run JS with a different TZ
To   : nelgin
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Oct 12 2023 12:03 pm

 Re: Run JS with a different TZ
 By: nelgin to All on Thu Oct 12 2023 01:29 pm

> I have a script that I want to run using a different timezone. My system is
> America/Chicago and I want users to run it from the xtrn section as
> America/New_York.
>
>
> My original ideas was to create a bash wrapper script to set TZ and call
> jsexec but wont work since it requires various bbs and console functions to
> work properly.
>
> Also, javascript doesn't appear to let you set an environment variable like
> you can with other languages such as perl.
>
> Since I don't want to run my server or BBS in eastern time, does anyone have
> any suggestons on a workaround, other than to rewrtite it in perl? :)

How does your script use the timezone currently? Could that usage be updated to
allow you to control the timezone used at run time (e.g. with a command-line option)?
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