GDC(6)

💖 GDC(6) 💖 — the Games manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Games section, page GDC(6), and honestly? it's giving terminal-clock realness. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

gdc — the grand digital clock using curses. literally a big digital clock for your terminal, and yes, it ate. 🕰️💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gdc [-dns] [-t hh:mm:ss] [count]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so gdc uses curses to display a clock on the terminal. it constructs the digits from reverse-video blank characters — iconic behavior, no notes. if the terminal type supports color, the digits are drawn in red. 🔥

make the clock stop, pause, or resume by typing q, s, or space, respectively. that's the whole vibe check: q = stop, s = pause, space = resume. 🫶

given a numeric operand, the clock stops after count seconds. normally, gdc runs “forever” — and by forever we mean at least 2 billion seconds. 💀 not me thinking that's basically forever forever.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -d — uses the terminal's default background color. matchy-matchy, lowkey flawless. 🎀
• -n — reads input from /dev/null, making gdc ignore the stop and pause commands. you can still stop it with a terminal interrupt. so yeah, it's on ignore mode but not completely untouchable. 🙈
• -s — scrolls the digits up as they change. when running on a fast display, the program breaks up the scrolling into sub-second redraws, making the operation appear smooth. smooth like butter, fr fr. 🧈✨
• -t hh:mm:ss — uses the specified time instead of the current time. set the clock to whatever time you want, main character energy. ⏰👑

👑 AUTHORS 👑

shoutout to the icons who made this happen: Amos Shapir, John Lupien (modifications for curses), Thomas Dickey (improvements for ncurses). absolute legends, periodt. 💜🌈

this little masterpiece comes from ncurses-examples, dated 2024-06-15, and it's page GDC(6) — mwah, bestie 💋💖