Re: Olson querying

Nice utility.

I wouldn't mind something like this too:

     $ olson time 13:48       # where is it currently 13:44?
     $ olson time 13:48 -Cau  # where in Australia is it currently 13:44
     Australia/Currie
     Australia/Hobart
     Australia/Lindeman
     Australia/Melbourne
     Australia/Sydney

Feels like a useful way to offer a limited number of zones to a customer 
when you know their localtime (eg. in a web interface)

Cheers!
Rick Measham


On 6/03/2012 9:21 AM, Zefram wrote:
> New version of the query tool attached.  This one has a lot more options
> for searching for zones.  It lets you ask questions like:
>
>      $ olson areas -Cru # where is Russia?
>      Asia
>      Europe
>
>      $ olson offsets -ICST # what does "CST" mean?
>      -06
>      -05
>      +08
>      +09:30
>      +10:30
>
>      $ olson zones -Cau -IEST # which zone might EST be in Australia?
>      Australia/Brisbane
>      Australia/Currie
>      Australia/Hobart
>      Australia/Lindeman
>      Australia/Melbourne
>      Australia/Sydney
>
> I've got a todo list with a bunch more features that it ought to
> support searching on, but I think I'm going to handle them by a radical
> refactoring that yields more of a query language than this collection
> of options.
>
> -zefram