GTIMER(1)

👑 GTIMER — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💅

okay bestie, so GTIMER(1) is the section 1 manual page for gtimer, and honestly? she's iconic. This is a whole application for recording time you spent on tasks you defined yourself. Main character energy for your calendar. Let's get into it. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

gtimer — an application for recording time spent on user-defined tasks.

like… you make the tasks, she times them. that's the whole vibe. 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gtimer [-midnight offset] [-weekstart day] [-nosplash] [-resume] [-start
task]

that's it. that's the summoning spell. ✨

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So GTimer lets you time one or more activities. Not like a vibe check, like actual timing. Users (you, bestie) define tasks that can be timed. You can also add text annotations to tasks — little notes, cute little receipts. 🎀

And then?? Reports. Yes. Reports can be generated that summarize time spent and annotations. It's giving "I have data about my own life and I'm not afraid to use it." 💅

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -midnight offset — Specify the offset of midnight to use. Basically, users can allow time spent after midnight to be recorded for the previous day (because sometimes 1AM is still yesterday, fr fr). For example, the command

gtimer -midnight 400

will not consider everything 3:59AM the previous day.

(yes, that's literally what the page says. I'm not editing the man, I'm hyping the man. 😭)

• -weekstart day — Specify which day of the week should be considered the beginning of the week when generating reports. day should be a number between 0 and 6, where 0 is Sunday. For example, the command

gtimer -weekstart 1

will use Monday as the first day of the week for all weekly reports. The default is 0 (Sunday). 🗓️

• -resume — Start timing any tasks that were still be timed when GTimer last exited. She remembers. She always remembers. 🫶
• -start taskname — Start timing the specified task immediately. This option can be used more than once on the command line (stack 'em, bestie 🔥). For example, you can start a tasks with:

gtimer -start 'GTimer development'

• -nosplash — Do not display the splash window on startup. Skip the little intro, get straight to the plot. 🙈

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• ~/.gtimer/ — data storage

that's where she keeps everything. her little room. her little drawers. 💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

enscript(1), lpr(1)

go read those too, iykyk. 👑

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🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Craig Knudsen <cknudsen@cknudsen.com> <http://www.cknudsen.com/>

GTimer WWW home page: <http://www.cknudsen.com/gtimer/>

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not me being obsessed with a time tracking utility 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie — every flag, every default, every path, no cap. periodt. 🧚

signing off from GTimer on Mar 19, 2003 — yeah she's been serving since way back, and she still ate. 🌟💅