When times are entered as EST or ET, daylights savings is not automatically calculated. Even worse, if users select their time zone based on a region like America/New York, it defaults to the DST off time zone.

This is an issue because half the world is on an adjusted daylights time and most of my users are inputting their location or a non daylights time causing an hour off difference.

DST should automatically be calculated or this bot is useless for half the year.

This is the error you get when trying to add it:

Following docs:
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040720412-Bot-Verification-and-Data-Whitelisting

I wanted to know if there was a way that the bot will only send reminders to a certain role that doesn't have their time rather then everyone in the server? I manage a server where we have a general chat for everyone and a specific chat for gamers and i only want reminders to go out to certain members not all.

a new member of our discord server is attempting to set their time zone, we've checked to make sure they are using the correct format:

-ft set

but they are getting an error message that states "user not found"

i'm sorry i dont have any screenshots

Hello, is it possible to create roles based on timezones?

I want users in my server to self-assign roles with reactions.

For example, instead of writing Amercia/New York it would say EST.
Thank you so much for making this bot! :)

The use of "ago" (for example 1 hour ago) returns incorrect time.

Have checked that -ft time returns the correct time, so there's no telling where the bot got the time from for "ago".

Please see screenshot for the problem in action.

The bot uses DM's to convey information and sometimes I've noticed that users in my server have elevated privacy settings. With this, the bot can't DM them regarding the time in their timezone. It was really hard to figure out what happened and I thought it would be better to add an error handler if the bot can't open a DM with the target user. I wish I could have contributed more in this issue but since I am not that experienced in discord.js, I wouldn't know how to patch the situation.

This bot is exactly what I need to organise my clan. It worked great for the first 5 minutes and has been Offline since.

In order to use it effectively I need it online 24/7 like other bots. Is this possible?

The community I'm currently organizing has users across the globe and meets regularly. It would be amazing if we could use the data from friendtime to see where the majority of our users were located to plan events according to the times they were most likely to be available. For this use case, a feature that could generate a table with a list of timezones existing on my server, and a count of the number of users in each timezone would be a really helpful, neat addition.

Hello,
Thank you for the work and the help that you bring with!

The following two formats are not supported by the bot:

• 17 h 42
• 17h42

J'aurais aimer voir le même comportement que:
4pm
4 pm

Thanks again for your work! :)

Feature Request:
Is it possible that the bit could be updated to also recognise and handle 24 hour time?

@weightmanj: "Is there a way to remove a timezone we no longer want. For example if we have called the same timezone under two different locations Thanks in advance"

Not sure if this is an option, but it would be nice to make times such as 3:00 default to pm instead of am. Our discord is rarely active in the morning, so we usually end up wanting time in pm

One message that the bot reacted to:

I was wondering what it could have thought was a time in there (my best guess was "year"), but it responded with this:

had a base salary of $927,000 a year.

It detected the part of the salary after the comma, a space, and the letter "a" and interpreted that as midnight (I assume, since NL and US are six hours apart).

I would suggest that any commas that are part of a formatted numeric string (including currency signs, decimal points, commas, negative signs, and numeric characters) not be considered as a time.

It's also a side note, but 000 (a|p) both parse as valid times (noon and midnight). I don't know of any time format that represents time in quite this way. The mixture of three digits and meridian indicator doesn't seem to work for non-zero digits (for example, 111 a is not picked up by the bot as a valid time).

Since my server has quiet a few people using the bot, I would like to have the bot announce the time in the chat like it did in the past.
So I'd like a config option for switching between the old message and dm'ing.

DalaiLama (Discord): "Why don't you add a proper server?"

It would be beneficial if you included a LICENSE file for your project (and mentioned in the README it only applies to the code, not the image assets).

Without a LICENSE in place, the code is implicitly All Rights Reserved, which means people cannot fork your code and legally make contributions to your repo.

I would suggest, as I always do, the GPLv3. Here are the instructions for including a LICENSE in your repo: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

It would be a great idea to have a command to compare the a compare a specific time of a user to yourself, a specific time for yourself to another user, or from one user to another user.

Currently with the -ft time command this is not possible, since it only shows the current time.

This idea comes from Hyperion_21#1503 (526120327697268736).

Situations:

• When it is 10pm for me, what time is it for @User?
• When it is 10pm for @User, what time is it for me?
• When it is 10pm for @UserOne, what time is it for @UserTwo?

Command Suggestion:
-ft convert me to <@user> <time>
-ft convert <@user> to me <time>
-ft convert <@user> to <@user> <time>

• "me" could also be "self", or neither and instead require the user the mention their own name, or support both.
• Might need to use regex to match the "to" format, in the case that the user mentioned has a space in it.
• How can the be captured by regex? Do we run time parser on the whole string?

Bonus: Support Time Zones as Well:
-ft convert me to America/New_York <time>
-ft convert America/New_York to me <time>
-ft convert America/New_York to America/Chicago <time>

The introductory message calls to action:

-> Set your time zone by using the -ft set command!

Since there is no syntax diagram offered etc, I immediately type:

# -ft set America/Los_Angeles

This comes back with:

-> This command can only be used in a server.

At this point I'm trying to figure how to talk to the bot in a server-specific way, and am ratholed re: using the bot.

Possible Improvements to alleviate:

1 - Give more explicit instructions. "Set your time zone by typing -ft set" or some similar construction. A command takes arguments. Something you just ask the user to type is more explicit.

2 - If someone types -ft set <explicit_TZ> just work. I know this is theoretically hard because almost any string is a valid TZ at least from the libc specification, but realistically for your design you could limit this to the well-formed time zones you expect from your map.

When following the self-hosting.md guide I receive the following error when running "npm start"

Feature request:
How hard would it be to change all the direct messages in to one reply to a message?

Example

mattben
guys is 4pm good?

mattben guys is 4pm good?
Friend Time
4pm pst is 5pm mnt, 7pm est, 12am gmt

Enhancement/feature Request:

The app is incredibly useful but one thing I feel is sorely needed is the ability to distinguish the timezone/location of the user that triggered the bot in the first place. If there's a lot of text or multiple time zones are entered into a messages (only the first time entered is converted) then it can get a little tricky.

Would it be possible to have the time zone of the user that triggered the bot to have their time zone and location displayed in the first line followed by a visual line break (even a single "-" would work) before the rest of the time zones and locations are displayed?

Possible to have an option to change the output channel or limit to direct responses for users setting zones and the like?

Time Bot seems to go down quite often. Everyday for hours on end. Is there a way to host it locally?

Nathan (Discord): "Hey just a quick question, i had a member in Discord that registered their country with Friend Time bot, but they have now left Discord, i'm still getting their time display when i use this, how can i remove that country time?"

NovaKevin: "If someone else in the server has their timezones set as that it will still show up, but if they left the server while the bot was down then there could be a problem. I'd need your server ID to manually remove the timezone

https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/206346498-Where-can-I-find-my-User-Server-Message-ID-"

People frequently can't use timezones correctly.

They refer to "3pm pst" when DST is in effect. The bot takes this literally and conversion is then an hour out, because they really meant "3pm pdt".

The bot needs to assume people are wrong when they use time zones in a time period where they are not in effect. For example, if they specify "3pm pst", assume they meant "3pm pt" ("3pm pdt") if the Pacific time zone on that date (and time) is PDT.

No amount of telling people that they're using the wrong time zone will get them to specify time correctly.

It's kindof annoying how we have to use location names and can't really use TZ abbreviations. Surely it's possible to have both able to be mapped.

It will be great if we can obtain the list of the user with their time zone.

Thank you

So recently on a friend's server friend time just suddenly stopped working and so we tried to kick it and invite it back to see if it would work but all we got was this. please help

Since Canary Islands are part of Spain but do have different timezones I would like to ask for a timezone like Europe/Canary. I can use Dublin for now, sure, but can be confusing sometimes.

It makes sense to make conversions when an explicit time is mentioned, for example: 8pm.

But it doesn't make sense to trigger a conversion when somebody says: in 15 minutes.

Every time a user says "in X time-unit" friend bot converting the time in chat is messy. Can something be done about this?

hello,

There are errors in indicating the time, for example, these:
1.

But in reality:
Europe/Riga: 11:00 pm
Europe/Moscow: 12:00 pm

But in reality:
Europe/Riga: 12:00 am
Europe/Moscow: 1:00 pm

Typing in “1pm PT” results in “1pm PT: 5 pm ET, etc” which is wrong (it should be 4 pm ET, etc)

Typing in “1pm MT” results in only “1pm” being read, and the time zones are set against the user’s time zone.

Is this temporary that the bot is offline? my server relies heavily on this bot.

It would be good if admins could set the timezone of bots and other users.

I'm on a Discord server that currently uses this bot. And I noticed that after running -ft set America/Denver to set my time zone, it returned this error:

User not found.

Not sure what else to add here. It doesn't seem to be a permissions problem - I tried with Admin perms. The bot is permanently offline and doesn't respond to any commands as off today - 16/04/2021.

Friend Time doesn't give a time when a day is included directly after or before the time (ex. 9pm Saturday)
it does work if you give the date, but including just the day directly before or after, it doesn't respond

From Pack#3138:

Have someone from Japan, just noticed that the Date is a day behind

America/Los_Angeles: Thu, Feb 13, 2020 11:00 AM
America/Edmonton: Thu, Feb 13, 2020 12:00 PM
America/New_York: Thu, Feb 13, 2020 2:00 PM
Europe/Amsterdam: Thu, Feb 13, 2020 8:00 PM
Europe/Stockholm: Thu, Feb 13, 2020 8:00 PM
Asia/Tokyo: Fri, Feb 14, 2020 4:00 AM

Some users find it confusing to see cities out the US appended with America/ given the strong association of America = USA, for example America/Winnipeg

Would it be possible to change America to Americas to be more clear that the region is for North and South America?

I use UTC on my PCs.

Had this nice conversation with the bot:

The linked timezone picker shows UTC, but as you can see the bot doesn't accept that answer.

I noticed the bot doesn't take into consideration DST! Or there's a way to tell it?

Some commands aren't shown in the help command. Fix that, please.

Currently the bot can be added to threads by pinging, however once added the bot doesn't parse any messages inside of those threads.

I'd like to be able to set a user's time zone myself instead of teaching the entire server how to follow directions.
So say -ft @user set [timezone]??

Sometimes the Friend-Time bot will list timezones for a time mentioned in a message even when it's not particularly helpful. For example, say I message a channel

I was planning on leaving in 5 minutes

Friend-Time will trigger on "in 5 minutes" and list all the times in the server list. That can get kinda annoying. It would be nice if the timezone list feature could have an explicit trigger - something similar to the "react with ⏰" behavior that it uses for DMs. That way people in the server can prevent false positives.

If we think this is a worthwhile feature, I'm willing to help with a PR (just need some pointers 😅)