Introduction

Show accurate time in tmux status, i.e. update exactly on every second change.

This resolves the issue when you have multiple such time statuses in sight, they update in a randam order: even different sessions of the same tmux instance update at different time!

In addition, this program reads the system load for tmux and color it so you can tell if the system is overloaded at a glance.

Installation and Configuration

Compile it like other Rust programs (install cargo first if you haven't yet):

cargo build --release

and put the built target/release/accurate-time to one of you $PATH directories.

You can use the following in your ~/.tmux.conf to fallback if accurate-time isn't available:

if-shell "accurate-time tmux" {
  set -g status-interval 0
} {
  set -g status-interval 1
  set -g status-right "#[fg=red]#(awk '{print $1, $2, $3}' /proc/loadavg) #[fg=colour15]%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
}

Note that accurate-time only updates status-right, so you need to configure other parts elsewhere.