World clock

Matts on 2005-01-11T14:25:13

There seem to be no *simple* and *free* world clocks for Mac OS X. The ones I've found are over 2MB downloads (some up to 6MB!!!). Jeez. All I want is a simple window at the bottom of my screen showing the time in the UK now.

Maybe time to dig up my Cocoa programming book.

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GeekTool

rjbs on 2005-01-11T14:53:34

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.)

Re:GeekTool

Matts on 2005-01-11T23:00:33

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

vsergu on 2005-01-12T15:22:57

You'll be off for a week in late March / early April.

Re:GeekTool

Matts on 2005-01-12T17:45:21

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

grantm on 2005-01-21T07:28:11

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

grantm on 2005-01-21T09:11:10

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;