bash-fuzzy-clock is a natural language or "fuzzy" clock script, written in Bash. Use it in anything that accepts script output (like Conky, or i3bar, or swaybar or...) as a desktop-agnostic fuzzy clock. Translated to six languages.
If you're on Arch Linux you can install this from the AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bash-fuzzy-clock-git/
If not, from a terminal:
$ tar xf bash-fuzzy-clock.tar.gz
$ sudo install -v bash-fuzzy-clock.sh -m 0755 /usr/bin/bash-fuzzy-clock
If you need a translation, make sure you
have LANGUAGE set in .bashrc (and for Conky, .xinitrc) or
/etc/locale.conf
$ sudo msgfmt fr.po -o /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/bash-fuzzy-clock.mo
$ sudo msgfmt de.po -o /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/bash-fuzzy-clock.mo
$ sudo msgfmt es.po -o /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/bash-fuzzy-clock.mo
$ sudo msgfmt it.po -o /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/bash-fuzzy-clock.mo
$ sudo msgfmt pt.po -o /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/bash-fuzzy-clock.mo
Just invoke it:
$ bash-fuzzy-clock
--> nearly twenty past seven
You can use the "m" option to display the general time of day:
$ bash-fuzzy-clock m
--> morning
Using Conky, you can set the script to run every minute (or perhaps, if you just want, every five minutes). See https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/wiki for Conky's wiki.
Using Tint2, you use the executor panel item to run the script. See https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/blob/master/doc/tint2.md#executor for more details, or just use tint2conf.
On an Apple computer, you can use GeekTool to display the clock on your screen, using a Shell Geeklet: see https://lifehacker.com/5834676/build-an-attractive-informative-mac-desktop-with-geektool
If you want to translate bash-fuzzy-clock to your language, please do! Make a fork, and add a new .po file.
Fuzzy clocks display a generalisation of the time in informal or natural language. They only give precise time on the hour and at five-minute intervals from the hour.
There are a number of fuzzy clock implementations which
- don't work in any other language than English;
- are not fuzzy - they simply display the exact time in words; or
- require Python
and at the time of first writing the script, I couldn't find a clock that I liked. So I made one that only required Bash, was fuzzy, and was (to the limits of my language knowledge) translatable.