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Conky Fuzzy Zeit 1.0

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# A Fuzzy Clock for Conky (1.9.x)
# Version 1.1 - Apr 17th 2016
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First English release & neue deutsche Version
(in development: Italian version - sto sviluppando una versione italiana)

Gives the time in a textual form by highlighting the right words in a table made of time vocabulary, quasi a timetable, see the screenshots. More screenshots linked at the end of this text.

The main work is done in a bash script (fuzzy_time.sh for the English version, fuzzy_zeit.sh for the German version). Conky then just gets the lines with the highlighting instructions and will display them.

# HELP is welcome
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Help means most of all bugreports. The bash scripts run fine, conky does not complain about anything, but every now and then I still encounter an odd or very odd time announcement. And I cannot guard the beasts all the time.

The best form to report a bug is like this:

Version: fuzzy-zeit 1.1
Time (24h format): 23:09
Fuzzy time shows:  it is nearly half to o'clock the morning
I would expect:    it is ten past eleven in the evening

What I don't consider a bug is that neither version includes regional variants of how to tell the time. I am perfectly aware that in some regions also Englishmen may say things like "It is half 10" (which confusingly enough would be "Es ist halb 11" in German), but I cannot include all those different phrasings.

Screenshots would also be nice. If you have a nice screenshot showing this conky, you can share a link to it here it here:
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# Install:
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1) copy the files to your conky folder
2) make "fuzzy_time.sh" ("fuzzy_zeit.sh") executable and check the rights
3) open "fuzzy_time.conky" ("fuzzy_zeit.conky") with your fav editor and edit the path in line 10

4) run the stuff: "conky -c path_to_fuzzy_zeit(time).conky"

5) return to your editor and and customize the colors, position, whatever you like ...

Practically everything before "GENERAL WINDOW SETTINGS" can be interesting for conky beginners, too. Some random color settings are included and just need to be activated by uncommenting them (and commenting the setting that was active before), transparency settings and window position can easily be changed. Where my comments are not sufficient consult the conky settings page [1] and just don't be shy to play and experiment a bit.

[1] conky.sourceforge.net/config_s…

# German blabla
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Diese Conky-Uhr habe ich letztes Jahr geschrieben, ein paar Tage benutzt und dann wieder gegen was anderes ausgetauscht. Folglich waren noch einige Fehler drin; bei einer Uhr sieht man manchen Fehler halt nur einmal in 24 Stunden ...

Was mir jetzt an Fehlern  beim erneuten Durchsehen ins Netz gegangen ist, habe ich korrigiert. Daneben habe ich das Bash-Script ein wenig entrümpelt und in eine noch lesbarere Form gebracht - und vermutlich neue Fehler eingebaut.

Wenn Du einen Fehler findest, wäre ein kurzer Bugreport in folgender Form sehr hilfreich:

Version: fuzzy-zeit 1.1
Uhrzeit (24-Format): 16:35
Fuzzy-Zeit-Angabe: "Es ist kurz vor halb mitternacht"
Erwartung: "Es ist fünf nach halb fünf am nachmittag"

Nicht als einen Bug sehe ich es an, dass diese Conky Uhr keine regionalen Gepflogenheiten kennt. Wer also nur mit Angaben wie "es ist dreiviertel sieben" oder "jleich isset mittach" wirklich froh wird (oder jlöglisch), findet im Bash-Script hoffentlich eine ganz brauchbare Anregung dafür, wie er sich das selber zusammenstricken kann; auf fertige Resultate bin ich stets neugierig.

Screenshots - hopefully a growning list:
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Stumbled upon this one here, and I love it. I transcribed the fuzzy_zeit.conky file for conky 1.10, because the original one does not work any more and only produces errors. If someone is interested, I will share it. The syntax has changed considerably between the two conky versions. Thanks to the creator anyway for this nice piece of software.