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ALARMd Unix Time Format for 1234567890 Day
In honor of 1234567890 day, I’ve added the Unix time format to ALARMd.
Hit Options, then the Clock Format tab to change to Unix Time. Enjoy!
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ALARMd is a Google Code Project
I received a request this week to participate in development of the internet alarm clock I developed awhile back called ALARMd. It has gone through two major revisions, and my interest in contributing additional source code to the project is waning. I’ve got other projects. So, I’ve decided to publish it to [...]
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ALARMd 2 Beta, with Google Calendar Integration
Take a look: ALARMd 2 Beta
Update: added Metric and Unit Circle time formats.
I know, some of you are reading this and thinking to yourself — genital herpes is more appealing than yet another online alarm clock. But to that I say, congratulations, that’s one of the new features in ALARMd 2!
Why did I make [...]
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Yet Another Pretty Date JavaScript
I can’t let this Pretty Date thing go. I decided to use a modification of John Resig’s Pretty Date JavaScript implementation written by Dean Landolt and shared in the comments on John’s page. The script was an obvious choice for the next iteration of Alarmd, which is nearing completion as I type.
The more [...]
PHP Pretty Date
This class is pretty much a direct port of John Resig’s JavaScript Pretty Date to PHP 5. A few notes:
Requires PHP >= 5.10, due to the usage of PHP’s new DateTimeclass.
The new DateTime object parses strings using PHP’s strtotime, so you don’t need to pass in an ISO8601 formatted date, as in JavaScript Pretty [...]

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