FreeBSD clock?

[canihazsekooriti]

How do I make FreeBSD display clock on screen?

So, I have a WIFI hotspot running 24/7 on an HP TC1100 with its screen always on. Right now it just logs an occasional innocuous wifi device timeout message on screen. It would be so nice to make this screen real estate functional and display a clock or something. Is that possible? Maybe an Ascii clock? Maybe add an area below it for an ascii/text weather report? Anything like that exists in the wild?

I suspect I'm not the only one who has this situation?

 

[tingo]

there are a few clocks in ports: deskutils/peaclock, misc/rsclock, sysutils/tty-clock and perhaps more.

 

[Kai Burghardt]

top(1) shows a clock in the upper‑right hand corner, so I thought how about showing some network statistics: ​

systat -ifstat -match 'em*' 1 # replace 'em*' interface name pattern as appropriate

If this already too much you can write something like: ​

while uptime ; do sleep 60 ; tput clear ; done # or maybe `w` instead of `uptime`?

Ultimately I recommend to conserve energy. Turn the screen off unless you really have people walking by 24/7 (like in a major train station concourse).​

PS: ASCII Unicode weather report is misc/wthrr (pulls Rust in).