From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 12 15:33:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A2114D4C for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:33:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id AAA09892 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:33:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01548 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:48:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: XClock UTC? Date: 12 Oct 1999 23:48:00 +0200 Message-ID: <7u0aag$1fu$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <7ttpta$1ldc$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <199910120045.UAA32664@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Crist J. Clark wrote: [strftime(3)-style 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. Oh, I see, you mean "xclock -digital". I was thinking in terms of the analog display and couldn't figure out what you'd want with strftime there. ;-) Indeed, adding this functionality should be trivial. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message