newyearsbot

NewYearsBot

Preparing for 2023

New Year's Eve IRC party bot

Posts New Years for each timezone when they happen

<hny2021> Happy New Year in American Samoa (Pago Pago), Niue (Alofi), United States of America (Midway Atoll)
<ugjka> !next
<hny2021> Next New Year in 25 minutes 9 seconds in Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Takeo), Christmas Island, Indonesia (Bandung, Bekasi, Depok, Jakarta, Medan, Palembang, Semarang, South Tangerang, Surabaya, Tangerang), Laos (Pakxe, Vientiane), Mongolia (Khovd), Russia (Krasnoyarsk, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk), Thailand (Bangkok, Chon Buri, Mueang Nonthaburi, Udon Thani), Vietnam
<ugjka> !last
<hny2021> Last NewYear 34 minutes 55 seconds ago in Australia (Mandurah, Perth, Western Australia), Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan), China (Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wuhan), Hong Kong, Indonesia (Balikpapan, Banjarmasin, Makassar), Macau, Malaysia (Klang, Kota Bharu, Kuala Lumpur), Mongolia (Erdenet, Ulan Bator), Philippines (Manila), Russia (Irkutsk), Singapore, Taiwan
<ugjka> !hny Riga
<hny2021> New Year in Riga, Rīga, Vidzeme, LV-1050, Latvia will happen in 5 hours 25 minutes
<hny2021> Happy New Year in Nepal (Biratnagar, Kathmandu, Pokhara)
<hny2021> Next New Year in 14 minutes 57 seconds in India (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Surat), Sri Lanka (Colombo)

Bot's commands

• !next upcoming new year
• !previous previous new year
• !remaining number of remaining timezones
• !hny <location> get new year status for location
• !time <location> get current time in location
• !time UTC time
• !help show help

The command prefix ! can be changed using the -prefix flag

Pro-tip

• make sure your system's time is synchronized with NTP

Installation

2021 versions

Arch linux PKGBUILD in archlinux folder

Using make

You need make, go, go-tools

Build with make

Install with make install

Uninstall with make uninstall

Clean up with make clean