/teamTime

Tool for keeping track of staff in multiple timezones

Primary LanguagePython

teamTime


teamTime is a tool to aid the problem of keeping track of time for a globally distributed team.

You will need to put the name of your teammates in staff.csv using the format name, timezone, city. Take a look at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joemcmanus/teamTime/master/example.csv

Alice,US/Eastern,New York New York
Bob,US/Central,Chicago Illinois
Charlie,Africa/Abidjan, Abidjan
Doug,America/Tijuana, Tijuana Mexico
Ed,America/Winnipeg, Winnipeg
Frank,Asia/Dubai,Dubai

Questions/Feedback/Feature Requests? Please let me know.

Installation


Snap

To install teamTime as a snap, type:

sudo snap install teamtime

pip

To install teamTime with pip, type:

pip install teamtime

To install and run from source

Install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m teamtime.teamtime

Note

To avoid typing the path to the CSV file you might want to make an alias:

alias teamtime='teamtime --src=/home/foo/staff.csv'

Usage


teamtime --help
usage: teamtime [-h] [--name NAME] [--src SRC] [--map]

Time Table

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  --name NAME  Optional name to search for
  --comp COMP  Compare times, use --name and --comp together
  --src SRC    Optional src file, defaults to staff.csv
  --map        Draw map	

To simply print a table of your team run teamtime

+---------+------------------+
|  Person |    Local Time    |
+---------+------------------+
|  Alice  | 2019-09-25 12:16 |
|   Bob   | 2019-09-25 11:16 |
| Charlie | 2019-09-25 16:16 |
|   Doug  | 2019-09-25 09:17 |
|    Ed   | 2019-09-25 11:17 |
|  Frank  | 2019-09-25 20:17 |
|  now()  | 2019-09-25 10:16 |
+---------+------------------+

To search for just Bob run teamtime --name=Bob

+--------+------------------+
| Person |    Local Time    |
+--------+------------------+
| Bob    | 2019-10-02 15:37 |
+--------+------------------+

To convert a local time to another time in a person's time zone use --comp. This helps when you are trying to figure out when to schedule a call.

$ teamtime --name=andy --comp=15:00
+--------+------------------+---------------------+
| Person |    Their Time    |      Your Time      |
+--------+------------------+---------------------+
|  Andy  | 2019-10-18 07:30 | 2019-10-17 15:00:00 |
+--------+------------------+---------------------+

To create a map run teamtime --map

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