Does your app has preferences the user can enter? Why not allow him to enter
also the sudo password?
You could then use that to execute the following shell command:
put shell("echo <password> | sudo -S /usr/sbin/systemsetup -gettimezone")
replace <password> with the password in preferences. No need to use Applescript.
Regards,
Matthias
> Am 14.09.2022 um 15:50 schrieb Bob Cole via use-livecode
> <[email protected]>:
>
> Just for the sake of completeness, there is a way to get the time zone with
> AppleScript but it requires Administrator Privileges. The MacOS pops up a
> request to allow the “do as AppleScript” script to access the systemsetup
> function. That manual step will interfere with the flow of the program.
>
> Create a field “Statements” with this AppleScript:
>
> do shell script "/usr/sbin/systemsetup -gettimezone" with administrator
> privileges
>
> and put the following code in the script of a button:
>
> on mouseUp
> do field "Statements" as "AppleScript"
> put the result into tResult
> set the itemDelimiter to space
> delete word 1 to 2 in tResult
> delete the last char of tResult
> put tResult into message box
> end request
>
> Tested in two time zones with these results:
> America/Chicago
> America/New_York
>
> Bob
>
>> It's the, "America/Los_Angeles" bit I am trying to find a way to grok.
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