Show the current time in various formats.
Many years ago I wrote a trivial little widget that gave the time in various
formats. I have rewritten it several times over the years: I did a literate
programming version in java, for example. When I saw Pieter Hintjens' beautiful
gsl tool I wanted to try it out. Rewriting my clock again seemed a quick,
little project.
The model.xml file is the meat of the project. It describes how a day is
divided into so many seconds for each particular clock and how each division
is formatted.
The modelToGo.gsl files converts this model into go when you run it with
gsl (or you get the Makefile to run it for you). The generated files are
here in the repository (clock.go and clock_test.go) It is all pretty
straight-forward.
There is a CLI executable that just reads the library and prints and there
is also a server executable that I run on my workstation — I have a tk
client (client/clockwisher) running that reads from the server every so
often and shows me my clocks. Boom.