NewYearsBot

Preparing for 2025, updates landing in December as usual

I'm doing it again for the greater good

New Year's Eve IRC party bot

Posts New Years for each timezone when they happen

Bot's commands

• !next upcoming new year
• !previous previous new year
• !remaining number of remaining timezones
• !hny <location> get new year status for location
• !time <location> get the current time in a location
• !time UTC
• !help show help

The command prefix ! can be changed using the -prefix flag

Pro-tip

• make sure your system's time is synchronized with NTP

Installation

2024 versions

Arch linux PKGBUILD in archlinux folder

Prebuilt Linux binaries are available on the releases page

Using make

You need to have make, go, go-tools

Build with make

Install with make install

Uninstall with make uninstall

Clean up with make clean

Specifying channel key

-channels "#channelname:channelkey, #channelname2:channelkey2"

Yaml config file

See example config: settings.yaml

Useful if you wanna run multiple bot instances across different IRC hosts