Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes
Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes
- Subject: Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes
- From: Andrew Merenbach <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:25:53 -0800
On Dec 12, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Benjamin Dobson wrote:
On 12 Dec 2008, at 18:36:21, has wrote:
You could run 'say `date`' as a cron job.
Make sure to specify your own date format. The user's default one
will probably sound silly.
For example,
date "+The time now is %I:%m %p on %A %B %e %Y"
will return
The time now is 09:12 pm on Friday December 12 2008
The system voices will pick it up as a date and say "twelfth"
instead of "twelve". Compare this with my default format:
Fri 12 Dec 2008 21:27:14 GMT
I had to listen to that several times to work out what it was
saying. It is spoken ridiculously fast.
See date man page for more info.
Hi! A tiny bit of nitpickiness, if I may: When employing the above
format string, one will probably want to use %M, rather than %m --
when I tried it, the %m returned the month, while %M returned the
minutes.
Cheers,
Andrew
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