hpr2469 :: A flight itinerary in Bash
Working out dates and times in a Bash script
Hosted by Dave Morriss on Thursday, 2018-01-18 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Bash, date, ISO 8601, epoch.
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A flight itinerary in Bash
My daughter flew out to New Zealand before Christmas 2017 to spend some time with her brother, who had been there with his girlfriend since November. I saw her flight itinerary from the airline, but had no idea of how the times related to time back home, so I wrote a little Bash script to calculate times in UTC (my local timezone).
Both of my children have travelled a fair bit in the past few years. I like to keep track of where they are and how they are progressing through their journeys because otherwise I tend to worry. This one was a reasonably simple journey, two flights via Doha in Qatar, with not too long a wait between them. The overall journey was long of course.
When my daughter flew out to Indonesia in 2015 (4 flights and a boat trip, over 38 hours travel time) I built a spreadsheet. Just whatever provides a good distraction!
Links
- GNU documentation for
date(You can also useman dateorinfo datefor the full details. I prefer the HTML version because I don't like theinfotool very much). - The GNU Bash Reference Manual
- Dann Wasko's "Linux in the Shell" episode hpr1182 :: LiTS 023: Date, which is full of useful information.
- Resources:
- The script I wrote, called
edi_akl(named to denote the starting and ending airports).
- The script I wrote, called