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SeaDude
SeaDude

Reputation: 4405

How to add TIMEZONE to VS Code User Defined Snippets?

I see the time/date variables available to VS Code User Defined Snippets are:

CURRENT_YEAR The current year
CURRENT_YEAR_SHORT The current year's last two digits
CURRENT_MONTH The month as two digits (example '02')
CURRENT_MONTH_NAME The full name of the month (example 'July')
CURRENT_MONTH_NAME_SHORT The short name of the month (example 'Jul')
CURRENT_DATE The day of the month as two digits (example '08')
CURRENT_DAY_NAME The name of day (example 'Monday')
CURRENT_DAY_NAME_SHORT The short name of the day (example 'Mon')
CURRENT_HOUR The current hour in 24-hour clock format
CURRENT_MINUTE The current minute as two digits
CURRENT_SECOND The current second as two digits
CURRENT_SECONDS_UNIX The number of seconds since the Unix epoch

Unfortunately, without TIMEZONE or TIMEZONE OFFSET from UTC, you can't automatically create an accurate, time-aware timestamp using these variables.

Example:

${CURRENT_YEAR}-${CURRENT_MONTH}-${CURRENT_DATE}T${CURRENT_HOUR}:${CURRENT_MINUTE}:${CURRENT_SECOND}

Evaluates to: 2022-06-03T07:32:09, but thats not accurate enough. Without a TIMEZONE identifier, that "timestamp" is +/- 23:59:59 reflection of "actual time".

I need:

2022-06-03T07:32:09-07:00 and I want the timezone offset to adjust for daylight savings time to 2022-11-04T07:32:09-08:00 as appropriate.

Must be human readable. Not going to use Unix time.

How can I do this without spinning up a whole Extension?

Edit 1: Thank you much for incorporating this feature. Its so nice that every time a create a new timestamp, on Nov. 5th and beyond, it automatically shows -08:00 instead of -07:00... ah, small win!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 978

Answers (2)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 182441

Indeed, coming to vscode v1.78 is a timezone offset variable, see new snippet variable for timezone_offset.

New snippet variable for timezone offset

A new snippet variable, CURRENT_TIMEZONE_OFFSET, is now available. This variable returns the current timezone offset in the format +HHMM or -HHMM (for example -0700).

Upvotes: 0

Chad Lowe
Chad Lowe

Reputation: 721

I came here looking for the same thing. Its not a snippet, but I use the Insert Date String extension to handle this. You can define the default format as iso, and it comes with a key binding of ctrl-shift-alt-I. Works well enough, but I too would prefer a snippet.

Upvotes: 1

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