One of the things about being on an international forum (sounds impressive, doesn't it!) is wondering about what time it is for others as you converse. I run conky with time and date and I started to wonder if multiple time zones could be shown. I did a quick search and discovered that it is very easy to add the time from different places around the world.
First, open terminal and input "tzselect". This will give you a list of options from around the world and format the time for easy text entry. Then go to .conky and add/paste the time entries in the appropriate place. Mine is given below as an example -
# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont arial:size=10
xftalpha 0.5
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 300 5
maximum_width 170
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color white
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color grey
alignment top_right
gap_x 25
gap_y 12
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
TEXT
${alignc 16}${font arial:size=16}Openbox${font}
Pingelly:${alignc}${font arial:size=12}${time %H:%M:%S}${font}
Paris: ${alignc}${font arial:size=12}${tztime Europe/Paris %H:%M:%S}${font}
NY: ${alignc}${font arial:size=12}${tztime America/New_York %H:%M:%S}${font}
LA: ${alignc}${font arial:size=12}${tztime America/Los_Angeles %H:%M:%S}${font}
${alignc -6}${font arial:size=10}${Time %A %d-%m-%y}
${font arial:size=8}
CPU $alignr ${cpu cpu0}%
${cpubar cpu0}
MEM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
$membar
Network ${hr 2}
${alignc} eth0 ${addr eth0}
Inbound $alignr ${downspeed eth0} kb/s
${downspeedgraph eth0}
Outbound $alignr ${upspeed eth0} kb/s
${upspeedgraph eth0}
Now for how it looks -
So I can see that melodie should be up and having breakfast unless she's been burning the midnight oil on her OB-alpha!! Anyway, it was a bit of fun and puts places and times into some sort of perspective. I'm going to fine-tune mine with some other details.
Have fun with it.
