vcstime(8)

vcstime8

Show time in upper right hand corner of the console screen

Usage

vcstime

Overview

vcstime shows the current time in the upper right-hand corner of the console screen.

This simple program shows the current time in the corner of the console screen.

It needs to be run by root, in order to have write permissions to /dev/vcsa

Releases

15 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 2.1
  2. 2.2–3.0
  3. 3.1–10
  4. 11–12
  5. 13–Arch

Authors

vcstime was written by Andries Brouwer, based on a suggestion by Miguel de Icaza. This manual page was Written by Alastair McKinstry, Debian, Jan 2003.

From kbd 2.10.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.