timepiece (tp)

Your command-line Rolex

Features:

• Get the current time (tp time), date (tp date), or both (tp now)

  • Keep getting it with tp clock
  • Stop with Escape or Q
  • Lap with Enter or Space

• Start a stopwatch (tp stopwatch)

  • Stop with Escape or Q
  • Lap with Enter or Space
  • If piped (e.g. sleep 5 | tp stopwatch), times process while relaying stdin

• Set a timer (tp timer [[[hours:]minutes:]seconds])

  • Cancel with Escape or Q
  • Pause/unpause with Enter or Space
  • Add 10 seconds with Right or A
  • Remove 10 seconds with Left or D
  • Rings using the BEL character

• Set an alarm (tp alarm hour:minute:second AM|PM)

  • Cancel with Escape or Q
  • Rings using the BEL character

Non-features:

• Background/invisible timers/alarms (make a shim, possibly)
  • This is because there don't seem to be any cross-platform fork libraries
• Configuration of any sort (edit the source, not to sound like suckless)

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