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Topic: Looking for World Time Application, Anybody know of a good one?

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mikshaw

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Posted: Sep. 24 2007,14:01

I assume you would be allowed to format the outpoot slightly if it's causing display troubles. The timeanddate people would have to be mightily spitely to have a problem with that. Try just inserting a newline:

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print "Getting time from\n $URL\n"; # legal

The information remains unchanged, but your display is not messed up.

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

WDef

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Posted: Sep. 24 2007,14:04

Juanito: Did you notice I've added a width control switch to citytime.pl with some other stuff?

Eg set 20 chars output width before 5-char time is displayed (so total width is 25 chars):

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citytime.pl -w 20 Tokyo London

Also, the data is now justified uniformly. You have Tokyo printed out twice; I'm doing (eg):

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${color red}$hr
${color grey}$color${execi 180 ~/.citytime.pl 'San Francisco' Sydney Tokyo}

Mikshaw: I've shortened the message to the minimum:

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timeanddate.com:

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a site that didn't require the url to be stated.

Another source might be nice - some of these have additional info eg weather.

I'm only guessing it is necessary to flag the source to the user. It is not clear to me and I'm not a lawyer. There's no EULA on the web site that I can find, and I am wondering if they could enforce rights over "the time", public domain data if ever there was any. Their notice is not in plain view - it is buried in the html source. And just how do they prevent people from accessing the web page data using whatever technology they feel like? Tell them it's "forbidden?"

Juanito

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Posted: Sep. 24 2007,15:19

One way around it could be to comment out the url in citytime.pl and use something like this in torsmorc:

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${color red}$hr
${color grey}Time by www.timeanddate.com
${color grey}$color${execi 180 ~/.citytime.pl Singapore}
${color grey}$color${execi 180 ~/.citytime.pl Paris}
${color grey}$color${execi 180 ~/.citytime.pl London}
${color grey}$color${execi 180 ~/.citytime.pl Seattle}

On a minor level, aesthetically it might be better to put the time first (with a leading zero if required) or align the time output, but that's just splitting hairs.

WDef

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Posted: Sep. 24 2007,15:35

You need to try the 'latest version' - I updated it already to add leading zeroes and to justify columns, and to check args and options.

For me, torsmo is looking very good without multiple calls to citytime.pl (means multiple downloads). No need to comment out the (shortened) message.

Also, have changed the source to www.whatisthetime.com , which does not seem to have evil notices anywhere that I can find, in case anyone is worried. The same regex worked on their list.

Feedback about new server speed of download etc?

Juanito

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Posted: Sep. 24 2007,17:15

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You need to try the 'latest version'

- We must have been typing the last posts at the same time. This seems to do the trick now:

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${color red}$hr
${color grey}$color${execi 180 ~/.citytime.pl Singapore Paris London 'San Francisco'}

About the only thing I notice (and it was the same for both url's) is that torsmo is very slow to start now and blinks occasionally (but I did see something about double-buffering somewhere).

Thanks - learnt something more there, now I'm going to try at adding some cpu info, etc to the display.

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