Time range script for use in KMail filters

isdaymail.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
#
# Copyright 2020 by Heiko Schäfer <heiko@rangun.de>
#
#
# Checks if a email date is *NOT* within a range of hours
#
# For usage in kmail filter, ex.:
#
# /path/to/isdaymail.py "%{date}" 18 4 && echo "Youtube announcement: %{subject}" | sed 's/Subject: //' | /usr/bin/espeak -s140 -a25 -b1 -k20 --stdin &
#
# Returns success for any email before 6 PM and after 4 AM local time

import sys
import time
import email.utils

__in = sys.argv[1]
__yt = email.utils.mktime_tz(email.utils.parsedate_tz(__in[7:-1]))
__lt = time.localtime(__yt)
__lh = __lt.tm_hour

if __lh >= int(sys.argv[2]) or __lh < int(sys.argv[3]):
    sys.exit(1)

sys.exit(0)