Pithy Nothingness

[Don B. Cilly]

From the "Feeling silly enough, darling?" chapter of the same Book:
an interesting (er, well...) quote by Douglas D. Zaster (Major, S.A.S., retd.) :

"I like dark themes. Thing is, Kate with a dark theme looks like camel dung in the Western Sahara in late autumn - which is definitely worse than, say. early spring.
Some changes to the basic colours are definitely advisable"

[Don B. Cilly]

I guess I could... but this way it's just... simple.
I do:
08:12 not@all:~$ copy 150GB of stuff to external USB disk.
and go down to chop some wood. When I come back, it will say:
08:44 not@all:~$
So I know how long it took...

I can always make a little alias to turn it on and off, but it's small and it doesn't really bother me.

[kyonides]

Couldn't you just run some sort of benchmark script or app to do it for you? Just asking.

[Don B. Cilly]

From the "Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike totally useless" chapter of the Book of Trifling Stuff,

I just added "\D{%I:%M} " before all the other escape (\[\...) sequences in my $PS1 in .bashrc.
The result is my prompt now looks like:
07:32 not@all:~$

Now, since I have two clocks on screen plus another on the wall, why would I do that?
Sometimes I run lengthy jobs - like backups or massive data transfers, for which I just turn the screen off and go do something else.
When I come back, I wonder... how long did that take then?