Nice Little World Clock

I usually come across time in PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) and UTC. Its pretty irritating to convert them back and forth to IST. “Why not find a nice clock that can do this ?”, I thought. I did a yum search clock, and I saw this thing called tzclock. I decided to give it a try. It looks really cool. It is very customizable, and the best part is that all the parameters can be specified on the command line!

I wrote a quick script having the command
tzclock -w -nr3 -f2 -zGMT -h -f3 -z"Los Angeles" -h -x1024 -y468 -s100 -l -f1 -h

Here’s what the arguments stand for :

-w Show it on all desktops
-nr3 Create three rows of clocks
-f2 -f3 Select the 2nd/3rd clock
-z Sets the timezone of the clock selected using -f option (Los Angeles in this example)
-h Hide the second hand of the selected clock. (was pretty irritating)
-s Size 100 (Don’t ask me whats 100, see the screen shot – its the size I want)
-x and -y are obvious

Here’s a screenshot.