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NAME
     chrono - Measure elapsed time

SYNOPSIS
     chrono [BbCcDdHhrSsTtVXxWY]

DESCRIPTION
     chrono  is	 a  terminal ncurses-based and/or X11-based windowed chronometer
     with millisecond precision, seconds, minutes, hours, days, months &  years,
     repeatable countdown, pause and reset function.

OPTIONS
     -h, --help
	    Show this help message and exit

     -b, --borderless
	    Create X11 window without decorations or borders

     -B, --beep
	    Play a sound at the end of a countdown

     -C, --command COMMAND
	    Execute COMMAND when countdown ends

     -c, --countdown FORMAT
	    Countdown using one of these formats: 15, 2:30 or 1:15:05

     -D, --debug
	    Show detailed debug informations

     -d, --display NAME
	    Use specified X11 display name (ie ":0.0" or ":1.0")

     -r, --repeat
	    Restart countdown once reaching 0

     -S, --sticky
	    Show window on all desktops

     -s, --seconds
	    Display seconds instead of milliseconds

     -T, --title TEXT
	    Put TEXT as window title

     -t, --test
	    Run correctness tests and exit

     -x, --X11
	    Use XOrg X11 Xlib as GUI (Only if ncurses support is enabled)

     -X, --position-x XNUM
	    Set the horizontal window position

     -Y, --position-y YNUM
	    Set the vertical window position

     -W, --width WNUM
	    Set window width in pixels

     -H, --height HNUM
	    Set window height in pixels

     -V, --version
	    Show the program version and exit

     Once chrono has started, press 'q' to quit, 'r' to reset and 'p' or <space>
     to pause.
	    chrono also responds to the SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 signals to pause and
	    reset respectively.

EXAMPLES
     chrono -c 1:15:30
	    Start a countdown of 1 hour, 15 minutes and 30 seconds

     chrono -x -b -r -c 1:0:0:0 -C "date >> /tmp/chrono-timestamp.log"
	    Start  a  borderless  X11 window and log current date after repeated
	    countdown of 1 day

BUGS
     The elapsed time can gain or lose around 1 second over a day  period.   The
     elapsed time may gain or lose 1 hour on daylight saving time changes.

AUTHOR
     Stephane Fontaine (bugs@esselfe.ca)

0.2.43				 30 August 2023				  man(1)