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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:19:30 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Customizable wall clock for several time zones
Message-ID:  <20100821231930.GB52873@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100821055224.ec9f0d12.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <20100821055224.ec9f0d12.freebsd@edvax.de>

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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.  


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> Polytropon
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