TimeZone Extension Attribute

[user-dKGrgHyYDI]

I couldn't find any extension attribute in the templates or in any forum for showing the local timezone of a computer in jamf, so I wrote my own.

It's just a simple script to pull the info from the localtime file, and cut off the first part that is always the same, then return the result to the jss.

example: TimeZone:/America/New_York

Script:

#!/bin/bash
# Extension attribute to return current TZ
localtime=`/bin/ls -n /etc/localtime`
TimeZone=${localtime:79}
echo "<result>$TimeZone</result>"
exit 0

Here's the full .XML file for importing to jamf directly:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><extensionAttribute>
<displayName>TimeZone</displayName>
<description>gets time zone</description>
<dataType>string</dataType>
<scriptContentsMac>#!/bin/bash&#13;
&#13;
# Extension attribute to return current TZ&#13;
&#13;
localtime=`/bin/ls -n /etc/localtime`&#13;
&#13;
TimeZone=${localtime:79}&#13;
&#13;
echo "&lt;result&gt;$TimeZone&lt;/result&gt;"&#13;
&#13;
exit 0&#13;
</scriptContentsMac>
</extensionAttribute>

Feel free to use as needed! 

[spsingh]

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[sgiesbrecht]

I was talking with my co-worker about this on Friday.  Were you listening @user-dKGrgHyYDI like Alexa? 😁

Thx for the script

[lsv]

Is there a way to get the specific time zone? (i.e. EST, PST)

Ideally going for a more generic grouping than specific locations.

[addikt42 · Accepted solution]

I changed this slightly to pipe this to awk

#!/bin/bash
# Extension attribute to return current TZ
localtime=`/bin/ls -n /etc/localtime | awk -F"zoneinfo/" '/zoneinfo/{print $2}'`
echo "<result>$localtime</result>"
exit 0

awk instead.