Package: xbase-clients Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Severity: minor File: /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock Tags: patch
I just tried to find out how to let xclock show the time of different timezones and didn't find anything at first. Please consider the attached patch to the xclock man page to document that you can use the TZ variable for that. regards Thorsten
--- ./xc/programs/xclock/xclock.man 2005-02-28 18:35:18.000000000 +0100 +++ ./xclock_new.man 2005-09-18 00:58:56.005911518 +0200 @@ -244,6 +244,13 @@ .B XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. +.TP 8 +.B TZ +to get the timezone that should be used. You may for example issue +.IB "TZ=""Europe/London"" xclock" +or +.IB "TZ=""UTC-8"" xclock" +to manipulate the time xclock shows. For more details see tzselect(1) and tzset(3). .SH FILES .TP .I __apploaddir__/XClock
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