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Linux.com: CLI Magic: Three Clocks

Feb 15, 2005, 05:30 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Joe Barr)

"If you're like me, you sometimes get so absorbed in work or play that you forget what time it is. The Linux CLI has all sorts of friendly reminders that you can use to keep you from running late for that next important meeting. Come on, lazybones, jump down out of your GUI-hammock, and let's take a look at three of them.

"There are two kinds of clocks in the world. The one with hands is an analog clock. Our first CLI timepiece is the other kind--a binary clock. In fact it's even called binary-clock. It's really only suited for day-to-day use for geeks or wannabes, but I thought it interesting enough to include in our sampling..."

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