Re: Multi Timezone Clock?

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From: Alvin W. Law
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 19:10

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luisg@hadar.fai.com (Luis Galleguillos) writes:
>rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>walter@Ingres.COM (Walter L. Nirenberg) writes:
>>>Does anyone know of an X-windows program which displays 3 or 4
>>>analog (or digital) clocks, each in a different timezone?  This
>>>would be a useful tool for my job.
>> 
>> Why not use multiple xclocks?
>> 
>> TZ=EST5EDT xclock -geometry =100x100+300+0 -n ET &
>> TZ=CST6CDT xclock -geometry =100x100+200+0 -n CT &
>> TZ=MST7MDT xclock -geometry =100x100+100+0 -n MT &
>> TZ=PST8PDT xclock -geometry =100x100+0+0 -n PT &
>
>running..
>xclock -geometry =100x100+300+0 -n ET &

>gives me the same time as PST, all the other do the same.
>WHat am I doing wrong? I do not run motif. I run twm window manager and X11R5
>on a Sun Sparc 1.
>thanks in adv.

try:

(TZ=EST5EDT; export TZ; xclock -geometry .... -n ET &)
(TZ=PST8PDT; export TZ; xclock -geometry .... -n PT &)

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 Alvin W. Law .............................................. Oracle Corporation
 Senior Software Engineer ...................... 300 Oracle Parkway, Box 659306
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 Email: alaw@oracle.com ...... Voice: +1 415.506.3390 .... Fax: +1 415.506.7299

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