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• GeekTool (Score:1)

  by rjbs (4671)

  I use GeekTool, which lets me run scripts and place the output on the desktop. I have the output of 'cal' in the upper left and the output of a simple Time::Human script in the bottom right. I turn off the menubar time.
  
  It would be easy to change the displayed timezone. (FWIW, I'm going to move to ProseClock instead of Time::Human, because Time::Human seems to have been abandoned until ActivePerl supports Module::Build. Long story. I should blog it.)

  --
  rjbs
  • Re:GeekTool (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087)

    Ah, that's fantastic. I'm now running:

    $ cat ~/London_Time.pl
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
     
    my @parts = localtime(time + (3600 * 5));
     
    printf "London: %02d:%02d\n", $parts[2], $parts[1];

    Thanks for that!
    • Re:GeekTool (Score:2)

      by vsergu (505)

      You'll be off for a week in late March / early April. [webexhibits.org]
      • Re:GeekTool (Score:2)

        by Matts (1087)

        Yeah I was aware of that. The alternative is to use something complex like DateTime.pm to get it right, but I don't need to get that complex really, and I don't want the overhead of loading DateTime.pm and all its friends for this little scriptlet (though I could use pperl to get around that).
        • Re:GeekTool (Score:2)

          by grantm (164)

          The alternative is to use something complex like DateTime.pm

          ... or something simple like ...

          $ENV{TZ} = 'BST';
          
          my @parts = localtime(time + (3600 * 5));
          
          printf "London: %02d:%02d\n", $parts[2], $parts[1];
        • Re:GeekTool (Score:2)

          by grantm (164)

          Sorry, engage brain before cutting and pasting. This is what I meant:

          $ENV{TZ} = 'BST';
          
          my @parts = localtime;
          
          printf "London: %02d:%02d\n", $parts[2], $parts[1];

          or

          use POSIX;
          
          $ENV{TZ} = "BST";
          
          print strftime "London: %H:%M\n", localtime;