Oxford Date Panel Applet

Do you find the GNOME date/time panel applet virtually useless during Oxford termtime? I've written one that displays the Oxford date instead. It's based on Andrew Godwin's oxdate python module, which is inspired by Dom's Oxford Dates perl module.

Download oxdate_1.0_all.deb, which will also install oxdate to your Python packages path, then right click a panel, choose Add to Panel... and select Oxford Date. If the .deb fails, you're not enlightened enough to be using a Debian-based distro, or you want to tinker with the source, its released under GPL v3 and is available here.

If you change the default date/time applet to only show time, and put the applets side-by-side, it'll look something like this:

Posted 6th February 2009 in Computer, with 0 comments