Slashtime

January 2, 2006 2:53 am General

I’ve been meaning to install Andrew’s slashtime utility on my Solaris laptop for a while, especially since I’ve been lame and not spent the time to port our timezone clock applet patch that we have for JDS to the newer versions of GNOME. Fortunately it was a relatively easy task. I first quickly grabbed the CPAN module and created a spec file for it, created the package using pkgbuild, installed it, and then tried to run the slashtime utility. The original script had some Linux’isms [or so I assume], and fetching the TZ variable from /etc/default/init seemed to do the trick and things were running nicely. The patch is here for anyone interested. Neat utility, thanks Andrew!

P.S. I know my Perl is pretty oooky.

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