On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:36 AM, has wrote:
Mr. Gecko wrote:
I'm trying to find out how to announce the time every 30 minutes,
You could run 'say `date`' as a cron job.
Interesting. The "speaker" translates "Fri Dec 12 17:52:58 PST 2008"
into these spoken words:
"free december twelfth s
On Dec 12, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Benjamin Dobson wrote:
On 12 Dec 2008, at 18:36:21, has wrote:
You could run 'say `date`' as a cron job.
Make sure to specify your own date format. The user's default one
will probably sound silly.
For example,
date "+The time now is %I:%m %p on %A
On 12 Dec 2008, at 18:36:21, has wrote:
You could run 'say `date`' as a cron job.
Make sure to specify your own date format. The user's default one will
probably sound silly.
For example,
date "+The time now is %I:%m %p on %A %B %e %Y"
will return
The time now is 09:12 p
Mr. Gecko wrote:
I'm trying to find out how to announce the time every 30 minutes,
You could run 'say `date`' as a cron job.
HTH
has
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On 11 Dec 08, at 23:59, Mr. Gecko wrote:
Does mac os x have some sort of a event sent out every 30 minutes?
No, it does not. You can create one yourself with a timer, though.
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Does mac os x have some sort of a event sent out every 30 minutes?
On Dec 11, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Andrew Farmer wrote:
On 11 Dec 08, at 15:14, Mr. Gecko wrote:
Hell I'm trying to find out how to announce the time every 30
minutes, I'm guessing I have to do it with NSTimer and and than
have th
I am working on an application that would most likely be on all the
time because it does lots of useful things, the time announcement
would just be an add on.
On Dec 11, 2008, at 6:07 PM, M Pulis wrote:
If you don't "need" this function "in" your app, or don't want to
have your app running
If you don't "need" this function "in" your app, or don't want to
have your app running all the time just to do the chime, you could
setup system preferences to let OSX do it for you. There may even be
a command line that can be executed under control of your app.
Gary
On Dec 11, 2008, at
On 11 Dec 08, at 15:14, Mr. Gecko wrote:
Hell I'm trying to find out how to announce the time every 30
minutes, I'm guessing I have to do it with NSTimer and and than have
the time interval set to NSDate interval from now to the time which
is like 7:30 or 8:00. but I'm not sure.
That's cor
