General ⇒ Actual time during presentation

[afinko]

I am using LaTeX Beamer presentation.
I want to see what time it is during presentation in full screen mode adobe reader.
Are there any possibilities ?

[Juanjo]

Yes, there are. Try the packages tdclock and analogclok that you can download from this URL: http://pcmap.unizar.es/numerico/software.php
The first package provides a digital clock showing the real time. The second package gives an analog clock, but it only works on Windows platforms.

[afinko]

Juanjo Tnx, this is exactly what i need

[Laura]

Hi I was wondering if anybody could be of help.
I downloaded this package (tdclock.sty) but cannot get any of the sample tex files to run. I am using vista.
I seem to encounter problems at the \initclock line. No matter what I try I still can't succeed in running the files!
Thanks!

[Laura]

Hi again everyone!
I'm still looking for help on how to do this before I make my presentation!
Has anyone installed this package successfully? I placed it in the same folder as my other .sty files. I updated the FNDB and refreshed it. But when I browse packages it doesn't appear in the list.... Any ideas?
Thanks!

[Juanjo]

Your two posts relate to different problems. The first one concerns the behaviour of the package, the second one is about how to install it. None of them clarifies which is exactly your problem. For example, have you managed to complete a compilation of a sample document? Do you get errors? Do you get a valid pdf but clocks don't work? Which is your pdf viewer?

To bound the problem, let us start with a simple step. Copy the following code in a tex file, say, foo.tex:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[timeinterval=10]{tdclock}

\begin{document}

\initclock
\tdclock

\end{document}

Put in the same folder a copy of tdclock.sty and compile foo.tex with pdfLaTeX. If you don't get foo.pdf, attach here foo.log. If you get it, open it with Acrobat reader. Do you see the current date and hour? If not, attach here foo.log and foo.pdf. If yes, the package works and only remains to correctly install it. In such a case, ask again for help (not to me, since I'm a Mac user, and only an occassional Windows XP user). Anyway, I figure out that the problem comes from an outdated version of hyperref. I've done a test on a Windows XP machine with MikTeX 2.7 and I got an error message saying that \HyField@flags was an "undefined control sequence". After update, the error has dissapeared and everything goes fine.

[Laura]

I really apperciate you getting back to me!
I'm using Adobe Reader 8. I seem to get the same error message you got but I updated hyperref from here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... /hyperref/ using the hyperref.zip and then updated the FNDB and still no luck
It seems to stop and highlight the \initclock line...
thanks again for your help!

[Juanjo]

Don't update by your own. Use the program that MikTeX provides for this purpose (Start > MikTeX 2.7 > Update). Quite surely, you will have to update first the binaries, then in a new run of the update program, the remaining packages. Please note, as shown by the log file, that you were still using version v6.77f, dated on 2007/11/17, of the hyperref package. The last version is v6.78l, dated on 2008/09/29.

[Laura]

Don't update by your own. Use the program that MikTeX provides for this purpose (Start > MikTeX 2.7 > Update). Quite surely, you will have to update first the binaries, then in a new run of the update program, the remaining packages. Please note, as shown by the log file, that you were still using version v6.77f, dated on 2007/11/17, of the hyperref package. The last version is v6.78l, dated on 2008/09/29.

Thank you so much! It worked! I'm so grateful and extremely happy now!