52) How can I have a clock show different timezones?


One solution is xchron, in Volume 6 of comp.sources.x, which can show the
time for timezones other than the local one.

sunclock on ftp.x.org displays a world map with sun/dark areas and local and
UTC time.

The OpenWindows clock has a TimeZone property.  Modifications to the

Xaw clock widget to support hour and minute offsets were posted by David
Herron (david@twg.com).

A patch for the clock coming with the Xaw3D widgets introduces resources
hourOffset, minuteOffset, gmt; it can be found at
ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:pub/src/X11/wafe/xaw3d.Clock.patch.

Alternatively, you can probably set the timezone in the shell from which you
invoke the xclock or oclock, or use a script similar to this:

	#!/bin/sh 
	TZ=PST8PDT xclock -name "La-La" 2> /dev/null &
	TZ=EST5EDT xclock -name "Nyah-Nyah" 2> /dev/null &

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