looking for applications: timer/stopwatch; alarm

[Janina Sajka]

Did you ever find anything?


Cheryl Homiak writes:
> From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at chartermi.net>
> 
> 1. does anybody know of a console program that can serve as a
> stopwatch/timer?
> What I want to do is start the program when I begin a particular task and
> stop it when I'm finished or have to quit. I'd also then like it to have
> the option of being
> cumulative--i.e., if I stop what I'm working on before I'm actually
> finished and then go back to it, I want it to start keeping track of my
> time on the task where I left off when I start the program again. These
> aren't necessarily computer tasks I'm wanting to keep track of time on,
> though in some cases they might be, but I'd like my computer to act like a
> stopwatch/timer with me only having to start and pause or stop it instead
> of having to use a regular stopwatch.
> 
> 2. Does anybody know if there is a console-based program that will allow
> me to set my computer to function as an alarm clock? Of course, I know I
> can find a sound file and set something up in cron, but I wondered if
> there is a program out there. I am using grandfatherclock and saytime with
> crontab to announce the time and play westminster chimes, but
> grandfatherclock doesn't have an alarm function per se--well, I don't
> think a grandfather clock would probably have an alarm anyway.
> Any info on either of these two items would be appreciated. am using
> debian unstable and did run apt-cache search and various words related to
> these ideas. Anything I found looked pretty much like it had to be used
> with X, with the one exception of the possibility of using "remind" for an
> alarm clock function.
> 
> 
> thanks.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> 
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