Spell-time

A dead simple shell script for spelling out the time. Spelled without numbers and like how it is said out loud in speech.

It violates DRY and every other philosophy for clean code, but it works so it works and I don’t care :p

Installation

spell-time.sh is a standalone bash script. Run ./spell-time.sh with no arguments to get the current time in words as stdout.

Format

• Twelve hour clock
• “Past” and “to” notation
  • E.g. half past five, ten to five
• “At” for top of the hour
  • Extremely unnatural but I wanted the hour to come after and the minutes at the front
• Rounds to the nearest 5 minutes
  • The words are shorter and less updates per hour are needed to be accurate

Example Usage

My use for this is to display the time in words in my polybar taskbar:

[module/spelltime]
type = custom/script
exec = [PATH-TO-SPELL-TIME]/spelltime.sh
interval = 60

Updating every minute means the display does not change with precision, but this module is very imprecise anyways so I don’t mind.