[SOLVED] Looking for a simple gui front-end to the date command

Mill J · 02-24-2018, 02:17 PM

Hello, Me Again

I'm needing a simple "stand-alone" gui front-end to the date and similar commands, that allows me to set the hardware clock when necessary. This feature is almost always built into the distro/DE settings so I haven't had any luck finding anything.

Does anybody know of an app like that?

If I can't find one I'll just develop my own, however no sense in reinventing the wheel, should something like that exist.

Thanks

Mill J

BW-userx · 02-24-2018, 05:21 PM

whatever happened to the command line and scripts??

Code:

#!/bin/bash


if [[ $# -lt 2 ]] 
then
   echo "Missing time OO:OOAM/PM"
   exit
fi
sudo date +%T -s $1
sudo hwclock -w

gui really? I have no idea where you'd find a gui to do that.

Mill J · 02-24-2018, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

gui really? I have no idea where you'd find a gui to do that.

Clever deduction Watson

Precisely why I asked....

ondoho · 02-25-2018, 01:04 AM

the antix distro contains loads of yad dialogs to make configuration like that; maybe also a date gui.

pan64 · 02-25-2018, 03:20 AM

you almost never need to set that hw clock. Usually only once in a year or just only one time.
Why do you think you will need that?

Mill J · 02-25-2018, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

the antix distro contains loads of yad dialogs to make configuration like that; maybe also a date gui.

Thanks I'll check that out. Luckily I do have a bootable thumb of antix, laying around.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

you almost never need to set that hw clock. Usually only once in a year or just only one time.
Why do you think you will need that?

Correct, I'd have no problem setting from cli or even bios....but try explaining to someone who knows next to nothing about computers...It's easier to explain a gui.

pan64 · 02-25-2018, 08:50 AM

I'm afraid it is not a good approach, but you know.
I saw something like widgets or similar written in python and were running inside gnome. I can't recall now the details, but as far as I know you could implement a simple dialog/window/listbox/whatever quite fast and probably that would be useful for you.

Mill J · 02-25-2018, 09:25 AM

I'll probably build my own.

One of these days I want to learn python, but for now c/c++ and wxWidgets has been sufficient for all my projects.

Anyways, on to Geany....

BW-userx · 02-25-2018, 02:24 PM

I'd just teach them how to drive a stick shift, then they can buy that fancy automatic sports car if they want to. I think teaching them GUI just hinders them if they are doing a Linux course, if they want GUI go get windows.

bribid05 · 02-27-2018, 07:08 AM

the antix distro contains loads of yad dialogs to make configuration like that; maybe also a date gui.

BW-userx · 02-27-2018, 07:57 AM

I think Ubuntutu has a date time setting in it as well , just need to learn how to navigate to it, cli would have been faster.....