Create a binary clock. Show Sample Output

You will see it on the corner of your running terminal. Show Sample Output

Binary clock with separate H:M:S. Show Sample Output

Do not run this command if you already have ntpd running! This needs to run as root, for example with sudo: sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org && sudo hwclock --systohc && sudo hwclock --adjust This command will fetch accurate time from NTP servers and synchronize your system clock, then it will use the system clock to synchronize your hardware clock, and will calculate the time drift. Show Sample Output

Shows a simple clock in the console -t param removes the watch header Ctrl-c to exit Show Sample Output

Configures screen to always display the clock in the last line (has to be configured only once). After that you not only have got the possibility to detach sessions and run them in background, but also have got a nice clock permanently on your screen.

Turn your terminal into digital clock. Show Sample Output

pauses exactly long enough to wake at the top of the hour

http://www.joachim-breitner.de/projects#screen-message now also supports reading stdin continuously to update what it shows, different ?slides? separated by a form feed character. Here, we feed the current time into it each second to create a large clock.

Useful if localhost is a small machine running BusyBox, which uses a slightly unusual format to set the date. Remotehost can be pretty much any Linux machine, including one running BusyBox. Uses UTC for portability.