Howdy all. I have a string that inserts the date and time into a long script (I do telephonic legal interpreting, so I have a variety of scripts I have to read along with date and time), but I would like to have it enter it in spanish.
Barring that, I would like to be able to have it search and replace the english terms with the corresponding spanish terms.
For instance, my string would insert "Estamos grabando la audiencia el Wednesday, July 04, 2018 aproximadamente a las 04:20 PM.", but I would like to either have it insert the day and month in spanish, or replace those with the spanish terms.
I haven't found a way of doing this unfortunately. I tried using image found and screenshotting the actual words followed by clicking and inserting the replacement text but that's really complicated and doesn't work reliably. The only search and replace function I have found has to do with the Clipboard, and not a window. I haven't found ANYTHING about ICU date/time formatting in spanish.
Any ideas?
Keyboard Maestro’s text tokens can insert the date in your localised format, but if that is not Spanish, then Keyboard Maestro has no direct help for you.
There might be scripts you could use to get the localised time/date in Spanish (I am sure it could be done with JXA), maybe with the date command.
Yes, indeed the date command will do the trick, specifying a Spanish locale, and an appropriate format (as described by the strftime man page.
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This is fantastic! With the regular ICU date/time format I know how to modify the time string to offset for other time zones (for instance I'm in MST but a lot of my calls come from PST), is there a way to do this with your script? I've tried a few things but haven't had success.
Here's how I get local time in Italy using Peter's solution:
TZ=":Europe/Madrid" should do it for Spain or TZ=":America/Mexico_City" for Mexico.
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Awesome! I replaced "Mexico_City" with "Tijuana" and it worked.
Is there a way to look up other cities?
I tried ones like "San_Francisco", "Dallas" etc. but it kept giving me the wrong time.
All the cities are in folders for the areas in /usr/share/zoneinfo so if you look in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America you'll find:
Adak Coral_Harbour Havana Miquelon Rosario
Anchorage Cordoba Hermosillo Moncton Santa_Isabel
Anguilla Costa_Rica Indiana Monterrey Santarem
Antigua Creston Indianapolis Montevideo Santiago
Araguaina Cuiaba Inuvik Montreal Santo_Domingo
Argentina Curacao Iqaluit Montserrat Sao_Paulo
Aruba Danmarkshavn Jamaica Nassau Scoresbysund
Asuncion Dawson Jujuy New_York Shiprock
Atikokan Dawson_Creek Juneau Nipigon Sitka
Atka Denver Kentucky Nome St_Barthelemy
Bahia Detroit Knox_IN Noronha St_Johns
Bahia_Banderas Dominica Kralendijk North_Dakota St_Kitts
Barbados Edmonton La_Paz Ojinaga St_Lucia
Belem Eirunepe Lima Panama St_Thomas
Belize El_Salvador Los_Angeles Pangnirtung St_Vincent
Blanc-Sablon Ensenada Louisville Paramaribo Swift_Current
Boa_Vista Fort_Nelson Lower_Princes Phoenix Tegucigalpa
Bogota Fort_Wayne Maceio Port-au-Prince Thule
Boise Fortaleza Managua Port_of_Spain Thunder_Bay
Buenos_Aires Glace_Bay Manaus Porto_Acre Tijuana
Cambridge_Bay Godthab Marigot Porto_Velho Toronto
Campo_Grande Goose_Bay Martinique Puerto_Rico Tortola
Cancun Grand_Turk Matamoros Punta_Arenas Vancouver
Caracas Grenada Mazatlan Rainy_River Virgin
Catamarca Guadeloupe Mendoza Rankin_Inlet Whitehorse
Cayenne Guatemala Menominee Recife Winnipeg
Cayman Guayaquil Merida Regina Yakutat
Chicago Guyana Metlakatla Resolute Yellowknife
Chihuahua Halifax Mexico_City Rio_Branco
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That's just what I needed, thanks so much!
