From droidbittin at gmail.com Sat Aug 13 21:04:31 2022 From: droidbittin at gmail.com (Luna Jernberg) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 21:04:31 +0200 Subject: [Xfce-i18n] ANNOUNCE: xfce-panel-hexclock 0.1 released In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Swedish translation for this done today On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 1:09 AM Felipe Contreras wrote: > Hi, > > There's a bunch of binary clocks available in the wild and in > xfce4-panel, but they are not truly binary (not even the "true" binary > clocks). > > In a true binary clock $noon would be $day >> 1, which is called > "binary time" [1]. > > I wrote a simulation where you can see how a day goes by in this > clock, and as you can see one second before midnight all bits are on: > > https://felipec.github.io/hexclock/?test=true > > While I did implement this binary time in xfce4-panel's clock plugin, > the patches were rejected with no reason given [2] three years after I > sent them. > > However, binary numbers can be represented in hexadecimal easily, and > a binary time represented in hexadecimal is called a hexadecimal time > [3] (or hexclock). > > In hexadecimal time noon is 0x8000, so a day is 0x10000, and one > second before the end of the day is 0xFFFF. > > Pretty straightforward. > > xfce-panel-hexclock is a very very simple xfce4-panel plugin that > shows the current hexadecimal time (BE93 at the time of writing this). > > It's so simple it's 86 lines of code, and the resulting binary is 15K. > > This could easily be implemented in xfce4-panel's clock plugin itself, > but I'm not waiting another three years for feedback. > > The code is in github: > > https://github.com/felipec/xfce-panel-hexclock > > If you can't wait to check your current time in hexadecimal: > > https://felipec.github.io/hexclock/ > > Enjoy. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_clock#Binary_time > [2] https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/235 > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal_time > > -- > Felipe Contreras > _______________________________________________ > Xfce mailing list > Xfce at xfce.org > https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce > http://www.xfce.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: