Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes

2008-12-12 Thread Jonathon Kuo
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 spo

Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes

2008-12-12 Thread Andrew Merenbach
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

Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes

2008-12-12 Thread Benjamin Dobson
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

Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes

2008-12-12 Thread has
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 -- Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC: http://appscript.sourceforge.net ___

Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes

2008-12-12 Thread Andrew Farmer
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. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post

Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes

2008-12-12 Thread Mr. Gecko
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 t

Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes

2008-12-11 Thread Mr. Gecko
. 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 correct -

Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes

2008-12-11 Thread M Pulis
p. Gary On Dec 11, 2008, at 4:49 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 the time interval set to NSDate interval from now

Re: Announce the time every 30 minutes

2008-12-11 Thread Andrew Farmer
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

Announce the time every 30 minutes

2008-12-11 Thread Mr. Gecko
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. Thanks for the