STOPWATCH(1)

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👑 STOPWATCH(1) — the general commands manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, welcome to stopwatch, section 1 of your friendly neighbourhood General Commands Manual. it's a stopwatch. it's a timer. it's literally both. let's go 💖

✨ NAME ✨

stopwatch — a stopwatch and timer program 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

stopwatch

that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no args, no drama. she just is. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so stopwatch does exactly what its name implies, no plot twists — it lets you do hand timing, just like a physical stopwatch you'd hold in your actual hand 🫶. but plot twist adjacent: you can also use it as a countdown timer. ⏳

and the specs?? she has millisecond accuracy — ms precision, no cap — and there is no artificial limit on hours. she will keep counting for as long as you need her to. main character energy fr fr 👑

✨ DIRECTIONS ✨

okay so here's the whole vibe, step by step:

  • press "start" to start the stopwatch 🟢
  • press "stop" to stop it 🔴
  • "record" records the current time and selects it, so you can readily paste it straight into other programs. it's giving convenience. ✨
  • recorded times get marked with an L for "lap" or a T for "total" — so you always know which one you're looking at 👀
  • when it's stopped, you can cut / paste / edit the time by hand and set it to any valid time. full creative control, bestie. 🎨
  • "zero" resets the time back to zero 🕛
  • and here's the fun one: holding down the shift key while you press record or zero will record and then zero the time. two-for-one. ate. 💅

time moves forward or backward according to the Run menu. by default, time is stopped automatically when either the lap or the total time reaches zero 🛑.

to disable that automatic stop, unselect Run -> Stop At Zero. that's the toggle, bestie, remember it. 🫶

✨ AUTHOR ✨

this manual page was adapted from the stopwatch documentation written by Don Libes 🌸. permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this manpage under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 📜

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. go read it, it's iconic, iykyk 📚

and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 — STOPWATCH(1), from the General Commands Manual. mwah, ty for reading, go time something. 💖✨🎀

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