NewYearsBot

2026 here we come

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

2026 versions coming soon

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

Usage

[ugjka@ugjka-pc newyearsbot]$ ./newyearsbot -h

New Year's Eve IRC party bot
Announces new years as they happen in each timezone

CMD Options:
[mandatory]
-channels       comma separated list of channels eg. "#test, #test2"
                channel key can be specifed after ":" e.g #channelname:channelkey
-nick           irc nick
-email          nominatim email

[optional]
-password       irc server password
-saslnick       sasl username
-saslpass       sasl password
-server         irc server (default: irc.libera.chat:6697)
-prefix         command prefix (default: !)
-nossl          disable ssl for irc
-nocheck	    disable ssl verification (e.g. self signed ssl)
-nominatim      nominatim server (default: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org)
-nolimit        disable flood kick protection
-colors         enable irc colors
-bind           bind to host address
-debug          debug irc traffic
-yaml           yaml config file

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