NAME¶
saytime - audio time check
SYNOPSIS¶
saytime [
-ch ] [
-d dir ] [
-f fmt ]
[
-o dev ] [
-t output-type ]
DESCRIPTION¶
saytime speaks the current time through the computer's sound device.
OPTIONS¶
- -v factor
- Increase volume level by factor. Directly passed on to
sox.
- -r sec
- Repeat at the specified interval in background mode.
- -c
- Output to stdout.
- -d dir
- Use sounds from alternate directory (default
/usr/share/saytime).
- -f fmt
- Specify format of time message. (see FORMAT STRING
below).
- -h
- Display simple help.
- -o dev
- Output to alternate file. If -t is not specified with -o,
-t defaults to ossdsp.
- -t output-type
- Specify the output type (oss, alsa, etc.); this is passed
directly to sox. If neither -t nor -o is specified, saytime will pick a
default destination via sox -d.
A format string can be specified to control the time message. Valid format
characters are:
- %k
- hour, 24-hour clock (00..23)
- %l
- hour, 12-hour clock (01..12)
- %M
- minutes
- %P
- Introductory phrase ('The time is')
- %S
- seconds
- The default format string is %P%l%M%S.
BUGS¶
Likely a few. It doesn't handle errors gracefully.
CONTRIBUTORS¶
Jef Poskanzer (original author),
Patrick J. Edwards <pje120@mail.usask.ca>
Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
David C Dawson <beagle7@pacificcoast.net> (the
-v and
-r
options)