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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:58:01 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Don Read <dread@texas.net>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        (FreeBSD Questions) <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: XClock UTC?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.991011115801.dread@texas.net>
In-Reply-To: <199910111624.MAA31464@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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On 11-Oct-99 Crist J. Clark wrote:
> Just kind of a quick, general question about a standard X utility,
> xclock. 
> 
> Is there a way to get it to display UTC (equivalent of 'date -u')

boom.dread$ TZ=GMT0GMT;export TZ;xclock &

> rather than local time? For that matter, is there a way to feed it a
> strftime(3)-style argument? It just strikes me that something that
> would seem so simple to add to it would not exist... I mean, this is
> X, how can it not be user-configurable to a fault? ;)
> 

source code is configurable to a fault too.

Regards,
---
Don Read                                 dread@calcasieu.com
EDP Manager                                  dread@texas.net
Calcasieu Lumber Co.                               Austin TX
-- the Y2K bug is not a problem. W2K however ...


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