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uggestion for new project - new digital clock for gtk (gxclocks)
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Feb 22, 2006 5:51 PM
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Last year, being located in Beijing, I found it important to be aware
of what the time was not just locally but in almost half a dozen different
time zones as the people I was dealing during the week with were quite
well spread out.
This "problem" resulted in me hacking together a small digital clock
program at Sun that I'd like to share with others and allow people to
improve on (I can think of any number of nice things it could also do,
if time were there.)
At present I've no ambitions for including it in Solaris and as such is
being suggested as an independant project. My hope is that others
who often find themselves time-zone challenged will find it useful.
The ultimate goal of this would be to draw half a dozen clocks in a row
with city titles above them, like you see on many walls today....
Darren
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Re: suggestion for new project - new digital clock for
gtk (gxclocks)
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Feb 22, 2006 6:54 PM
in response to: darrenr
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On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:51 -0800, Darren Reed wrote:
> The ultimate goal of this would be to draw half a dozen clocks in a row
> with city titles above them, like you see on many walls today....
JDS clock applet already does this, in the preferences
you can select multiple timzones.
If you prefer a CLI, you can run zdump(1) eg.
$ zdump US/Pacific GMT Asia/Calcutta
and if you want it in a GUI popup, (that can be launched from panel)
pipe it to zenity (similar to JDS clock applet)
zdump US/Pacific GMT Asia/Calcutta|zenity --list --column timezones
-Chandan
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Re: suggestion for new project - new digital clock
for gtk (gxclocks)
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Feb 23, 2006 1:24 PM
in response to: chandan
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Chandan B.N. wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:51 -0800, Darren Reed wrote:
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>>The ultimate goal of this would be to draw half a dozen clocks in a row
>>with city titles above them, like you see on many walls today....
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>JDS clock applet already does this, in the preferences
>you can select multiple timzones.
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What I don't like about the JDS clock:
1) this doesn't let me input a date and time for 5pm Burlington on the
23rd of February and know what date and time it is in all of the other
parts of the world I'm interested in.
2) it doesn't appear to be geared towards achieving the wall clock with
hands look.
Darren
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Re: suggestion for new project - new digital clock for
gtk (gxclocks)
Posted:
Feb 24, 2006 7:16 AM
in response to: darrenr
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On 23 Feb 2006, at 21:24, Darren Reed wrote:
> Chandan B.N. wrote:
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>> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:51 -0800, Darren Reed wrote:
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>>> The ultimate goal of this would be to draw half a dozen clocks in
>>> a row
>>> with city titles above them, like you see on many walls today....
>>>
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>> JDS clock applet already does this, in the preferences you can
>> select multiple timzones.
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> What I don't like about the JDS clock:
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> 1) this doesn't let me input a date and time for 5pm Burlington on
> the 23rd of February and know what date and time it is in all of
> the other parts of the world I'm interested in.
That's what http://timeanddate.com is for... you could even look at
the URLs produced by http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html
and customise the JDS web search applet to plug in the appropriate
values :)
Seriously though, it's a good feature request.
> 2) it doesn't appear to be geared towards achieving the wall clock
> with hands look.
It's not, but there a number of other GNOME clocks around that will
do that particular job, e.g. see http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/
archives/123-Analog-Clock-for-the-Gnome-Panel.html. (Whether or not
there's one that'll also do the timezone thing, I don't know off-hand).
Cheeri,
Calum.
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Re: suggestion for new project - new digital clock
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Posted:
Feb 24, 2006 11:12 AM
in response to: calumb
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Calum Benson wrote:
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> On 23 Feb 2006, at 21:24, Darren Reed wrote:
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>> Chandan B.N. wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:51 -0800, Darren Reed wrote:
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>>>> The ultimate goal of this would be to draw half a dozen clocks in
>>>> a row
>>>> with city titles above them, like you see on many walls today....
>>>>
>>>
>>> JDS clock applet already does this, in the preferences you can
>>> select multiple timzones.
>>>
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>> What I don't like about the JDS clock:
>>
>> 1) this doesn't let me input a date and time for 5pm Burlington on
>> the 23rd of February and know what date and time it is in all of the
>> other parts of the world I'm interested in.
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> That's what http://timeanddate.com is for... you could even look at
> the URLs produced by http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html
> and customise the JDS web search applet to plug in the appropriate
> values :)
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> Seriously though, it's a good feature request.
Needing to open up a web browser to do this is overkill, not to mention
that using this as a "solution" ties me to needing connectivity to the
Internet and that web site being up.
[...other clock deleted...]
Yes, there are other clock things around, some I knew about, some I
didn't...and none of them seem to do everything that I'd like to see done.
Darren
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Re: uggestion for new project - new digital clock for gtk (gxclocks)
Posted:
Mar 1, 2009 1:12 AM
in response to: darrenr
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Just ran into the same problem and this thread helped a lot.
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Wayne Daly
http://digitalwallclock.biz
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