Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:45:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XClock UTC? Message-ID: <199910120045.UAA32664@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <7ttpta$1ldc$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> from Christian Weisgerber at "Oct 12, 1999 00:55:38 am"
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Christian Weisgerber wrote, > Crist J. Clark <cjclark@home.com> wrote: > > > Is there a way to get it to display UTC (equivalent of 'date -u') > > rather than local time? > > $ TZ=UTC xclock & Thanks. Should have thought of that trick. > > For that matter, is there a way to feed it a strftime(3)-style > > argument? > > No. What would you want to do with such an argument? For one thing, I really don't need to be reminded what year it is every time I look at the clock. Second, if I don't feel like updating the clock every second or two, why bother with the seconds field at all. Quite a few other variations I could think of. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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