From 5ea82e37ef51972bb8821b451efd7995468b8fe9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Johnon <amjohnson@skyfall.tech>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 05:01:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fixed date formatting; replaced with function

---
 http_check_telegram | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/http_check_telegram b/http_check_telegram
index e5c803e..b831cac 100755
--- a/http_check_telegram
+++ b/http_check_telegram
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ get_http_code() {
     fi
 }
 
+print_time() {
+    date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
+}
+
 # Prepare message header
 MSG='HTTP/S Problems Found:'
 FAILURE=false
@@ -62,18 +66,18 @@ for site in $(grep -v "^#\|^$" $CHKLIST); do
     respcode=$(get_http_code $site)
     case $respcode in
         000)
-            printf '%s\n' "[$(date '+%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S')]: PROBLEM -- $site: DNS record not found" >&2
+            printf '%s\n' "[$(print_time)]: PROBLEM -- $site: DNS record not found" >&2
             MSG="${MSG}%0A%0A %2B ${site}%0A    DNS record not found"
             FAILURE=true
             ;;
         200)
-            printf '%s\n' "[$(date '+%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S')]: OK -- $site returns $respcode"
+            printf '%s\n' "[$(print_time)]: OK -- $site returns $respcode"
             ;;
         999)
-            printf '%s\n' "[$(date '+%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S')]: PROBLEM -- $site caused general cURL failure" >&2
+            printf '%s\n' "[$(print_time)]: PROBLEM -- $site caused general cURL failure" >&2
             ;;
         *)
-            printf '%s\n' "[$(date '+%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S')]: PROBLEM -- $site returns $respcode" >&2
+            printf '%s\n' "[$(print_time)]: PROBLEM -- $site returns $respcode" >&2
             MSG="${MSG}%0A%0A %2B ${site}%0A    responding ${respcode}"
             FAILURE=true
             ;;