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## Why did you write this instead of improving timetrap?
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## Why did you write this instead of improving timetrap?
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* timetrap is hard to install, hard to keep updated (because of ruby). Once this
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* timetrap is [hard to install](https://github.com/samg/timetrap/issues/176),
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tools is finished you can get (or build) a binary, put it somewhere, and it
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hard to keep [updated](https://github.com/samg/timetrap/issues/174) (because
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will just work forever in that machine.
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of ruby). Once this tools is finished you can get (or build) a binary, put it
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somewhere, and it will just work forever in that machine. I'm bundling sqlite.
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* timetrap is slow (no way around it, because of ruby), some commands take up to
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* timetrap is slow (no way around it, because of ruby), some commands take up to
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a second. Tiempo always feels snappy.
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a second. Tiempo always feels snappy.
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* needed major refactor to fix the timezone problem (in a language I'm not
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* needed major refactor to fix the timezone problem (in a language I'm not
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proficient with). I was aware of this problem and designed tiempo to store
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proficient with). I was aware of this problem and designed tiempo to store
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timestamps in UTC while at the same time being able to work with a database
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timestamps in UTC while at the same time being able to work with a database
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made by timetrap without messing up.
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made by timetrap without messing up. And there are a lot of tests backing this
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assertions.
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### Other advantages
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### Other advantages
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* Columns are always aligned
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* Columns in the output are always aligned.
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* Fixed some input inconsistencies
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* Fixed some input inconsistencies.
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* cli interface is much better (ask -h for any command)
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* cli interface is easier to discover (ask -h for any sub-command)
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* man page (to do)
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* end times are printed with +1d to indicate that the activity ended the next
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* end times are printed with +1d to indicate that the activity ended the next
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day
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day in the 'text' formatter.
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* solved some old issues in timetrap.
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## How to build
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## How to build
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