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English time

Posted: Sat 11 Jul 2009, 08:59
by DC
Hi
This is a fun script for telling English Time

English Time is
" Quarter past Two "
" half past Four "
" Seven o'clock "

The time will be accurate at the five minute times of a analogue clock
i.e. 5,10,15,20 etc
The in between minutes 6,7,8,9 etc will be rounded to the nearest 5 mins.

You can run the script at the command line to see the resulting time.

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I used an instance of conky to put it on the desktop.
conky code:

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${font FFF Tusj:size=60}${color orange}${alignc}${execi 30 /root/./english_time}
font downloaded from
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/40-free-hi ... awn-fonts/

Might be useful for people visting England to understand English time

possible changes are endless
"Nine o'clock" could be "tea time"
"Quarter past Eleven" could be "bed time"

DC

please report any bugs / suggestions