From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 21 23:19:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3C21065695 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:19:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E71028FC1C for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7LNJV0m032456; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:19:30 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20100821231930.GB52873@thought.org> References: <20100821055224.ec9f0d12.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100821055224.ec9f0d12.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on ethic.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Customizable wall clock for several time zones X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:19:38 -0000 On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 05:52:24AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > I'm searching for a round-clock style clock application for X, > and I would prefer a standalone program (not integrated with > KDE, Gnome, or else). It should be possible to define several > timezones and attach a label to each clock (which doesn't have > to contain the name of the time zone, but an arbitrary string). > > It should look something like this: > > []========= The clock =========X > | ____ ____ ____ | > | / | \ / \ \ / /\ | > | | +- | | -+ | | + | | > | \____/ \____/ \__|_/ | > | BLAH MEOW DOGFOOD! | > +------------------------------+ > > Just as bankers and dynamical long-legged success-oriented > group-dependent program managers use them. :-) > > In the ports, I found intclock, but it doesn't have round clocks, > and additionally, it allows to add UTC, and it is shown, but upon > program restart, it complains that "Timezone UTC not defined.". > > There is no need for a GUI configuration tool if the use of a > configuration file is documented, and then just contains the > TZ name and the label per clock, as simple as possible. > > Does such a program already exist? how about using multiple instantiations of xclock? i used to have a script with TZ= zulu, TZ=moscow, TZ=tokyo. > > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org