Many times we manage servers that are distributed throughout the world, these servers generally execute scheduled tasks and it is important for an administrator to know the current time of each of their servers, thinking about these cases has been created Overtime a CLI that aims to be able to view the schedule of your servers from the console.
In its first versions, OverTime allows us know from the CLI the schedule of different placesIn the future it is proposed that a schedule can be tied directly to a server so that in this way we can list our servers and compare them according to the time of each one.
What is OverTime?
Overtime is a Open source CLi, developed using JavaScript by Give Inverarity we allows to view the hours of remote servers scattered around the world, in a simple, fast and with a support to the IANA Time Zone Database.
It is a simple table where the columns are represented by the time zones that we want to verify and the rows represent the 24 hours that are also ordered according to the order they are called, this simple and practical tool allows us to quickly see and compare what time it is in each one of our servers at a certain time, with this information we can for example create cron that run at the same time (but at different local times), or check the logs of our server and know in what local time the failures occurred.
Without a doubt, the range of options that this tool gives us is quite extensive, and only those of us who manage servers located in different countries know how annoying it is sometimes to have to parameterize our calendar to show us multiple schedules or google to see the time current of a place (Especially when you need to do them repeatedly).
How to install OverTime?
OverTime installation is simple on any Linux distro thanks to npm, to start enjoying the tool just run the following command:
npm install -g overtime-cli
It will install all the necessary dependencies and install the CLI, which we can use by running overtime with the Time Zones that we want to show, the list of time zones can be found here.. For example, we can verify the time of four cities with the following command:
overtime show America/Lima America/Caracas Asia/Bangkok Africa/Douala