Comments on: Patching tty-clock

By: Clayton Holloway

Clayton Holloway — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:04:26 +0000

I agree.
I don’t know where he got the idea that it was the Americans that do that.

I guess it could be that the brits say things like “Today is the 9th day of April, 2009″, but then again they drive on the wrong side of the road.

By: Tom Adams

Tom Adams — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:39:19 +0000

You’ll want something like this:

_gitroot=”git://github.com/xorg62/tty-clock.git”
_gitname=”tty-clock”

build() {
cd $srcdir

msg “Connecting to GIT server…”
if [[ -d $_gitname ]]; then
(cd $_gitname && git pull origin)
else
git clone $_gitroot $_gitname
fi
msg “GIT checkout done or server timeout”
msg “Starting make…”
cd $_gitname

make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install || return 1
}

Although it won’t quite work because the Makefile doesn’t pay attention to DESTDIR.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:14:10 +0000

Quick question: I want to draft a Pkgfile for this, rather than manually rebuilding it each time. Is there a direct link to the source tarball somewhere, and I’m overlooking it? I need something I can link to with wget, but it appears that the Flash-esque download link is the only way to get the source, and it comes appended with a hash of some sort.

Any suggestions?

By: Tom Adams

Tom Adams — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:05:53 +0000

xorg62 already pulled it into their tree so you may as well use that.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:17:25 +0000

Great! Thanks. I’m going to start using this one now.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:36:43 +0000

“What confuses me is the UK, which does day-month-year, since that’s not the way it’s spoken.”
It is here, we say “The 9th of April, 2009″. “April the 9th, 2009″ is sometimes used, but it is much rarer.

I prefer DD-MM-YYYY, but if I am going to display the date and time I prefer ISO 8601 format, eg 2009-01-01T13:45:12+00:00.

By: Tom Adams

Tom Adams — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:12:17 +0000

Nice patch (I’m a strong believer in freedom 3, whatever your ability). Mine’s a little more flexible:
http://github.com/holizz/tty-clock

Now you can use whatever format you like for the date:
tty-clock -f ‘%Y-%m-%d’

Hope you like it.

By: Dave Foster

Dave Foster — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:07:29 +0000

As an American who lived in the UK for a year, and being endlessly confused about which was which, I now only write my dates as “10 Apr 2009″ – Americans sometimes look at it funny but there’s no mistaking which means which.

By: Timmy Macdonald

Timmy Macdonald — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:37:07 +0000

Pure American dating conventions dictate month-day-year. Which makes sense, since we normally say:
“Today is April 9, 2009.”
What confuses me is the UK, which does day-month-year, since that’s not the way it’s spoken.

By: Jeff Flowers

Jeff Flowers — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:36:01 +0000

I love Year-Month-Day, especially for anything that requires sorting. For example, I like to use Jhead to automate the naming of my digital photos, which gives me files named like this:

20090329_22-45-13.jpg

YYYYMMDD_hh-mm-ss.jpg

which means that it is very easy to get files sorted in chronological order. I also like using this format in spreadsheets, as it makes sorting easier there as well.

I don’t understand why it isn’t more popular world wide.