Time Zone Jovo Plugin

Overview

This plugin for the Jovo Framework v4 allows you to easily add cross-platform time zone support including an overall default time zone if there is not a country-code-specific default.

For the plugin that support Jovo v3, use jovo-community-plugin-timezone

Platforms

The following platforms are supported:

• Amazon Alexa
• Google Assistant
• Core/Web

In the case of Amazon Alexa, after the first API call, the time zone is cached in Session Data at:

this.jovo.$session.data.$timeZone

Don't access or change this value, instead use the method on the plugin:

const tz = await this.$timeZone.getTimeZone();

Install

Install the plugin into your Jovo project:

npm install @jovo-community/plugin-timezone

Register the plugin in app.ts:

import { TimeZonePlugin } from '@jovo-community/plugin-timezone';

const app = new App({
  // ...

  plugins: [
    new TimeZonePlugin(),

    // ...
  ],
}

Get the time zone in your handler:

const tz = await this.$timeZone.getTimeZone();

Configuration

You can set an overall default time zone fallback or defaults based on the country code portion of the locale that is sent with every request.

import { TimeZonePlugin } from '@jovo-community/plugin-timezone';

const app = new App({
  // ...

  plugins: [
    new TimeZonePlugin({
      defaultTimeZone: 'America/New_York',
      defaultTimeZoneByLocaleCountryCode: {
        US: 'America/New_York',
        GB: 'Europe/London',
        CA: 'America/Toronto',
        AU: 'Australia/Sydney',
        IN: 'Asia/Kolkata',
      },
    }),

    // ...
  ],
}

Jovo Debugger

If using the Jovo Debugger, you must add $timeZone to the list of properties the debugger ignores:

// app.dev.ts

new JovoDebugger({
  ignoredProperties: ['$app', '$handleRequest', '$platform', '$timeZone'],
}),

License

MIT