hsclock

Clocks labeled with timezone symbols.

Clocks using a different format string, labeled with vowel-truncated names.

Description

hsclock is an accurate multi-zone gtk clock, that can also run in a tty. Currently configuration is solely by commandline options, but a future version maybe support configuration via gtk and a config file.

hsclock uses gtk timeouts to synchronise the time updates to occur on the second or minute "tick" (depending on the clock format string), making display updates accurate to within milliseconds. (Of course your system clock needs to be synchronised to an accurate time source (say using ntp), for this to be meaningful.)

Releases

2001-12-18 hsclock-0.01.0 released: source tarball, i386 rpm and source rpm

• First release.
• Displays multiple clocks given on commandline.
• Syncs with system clock using timeouts (gtk) and select (tty).
• Clocks labels can be timezone abbreviation or zone/city name.
• Names can be shortened by dropping vowels.
• Global format string option to set the clocks' text.
• Defaults to local time when no timezones specified.
• Clocks can be arranged vertically (default) or horizontally.

Building

Building requires:

• the Glasgow Haskell Compiler ghc,
• the GTK+ Binding for Haskell gtk+hs, and
• C->Haskell c2hs