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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: XClock UTC? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:24:58 -0400."
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:24:58 -0400, "Crist J. Clark" wrote:

> Is there a way to get it to display UTC (equivalent of 'date -u')
> rather than local time?

No. From the xclock manpage:

	BUGS
		Xclock believes the system clock.

> I mean, this is X, how can it not be user-configurable to a fault? ;)

Perhaps nobody has been interested enough to fix it. Perhaps you'd like
to work on this and send your patches to the XFree86 maintainers. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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