I want to get a program (a script that can be set to auto-start or something) that tells you every hour like "It's 11 o'clock."
I know it's easy on Macs, but how do you get that on Precise?
There's a program in the standard repos for it, saytime.
sudo apt-get install saytime
Then you can run saytime -r 3600 to run it every hour (3600 seconds, or change the number for a different interval in seconds). It will start as a background process when run with this option.
If you want to change the format (for example to remove the "and X seconds") it would be saytime -r 3600 -f %P%l%M - full format options in man saytime.
Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=516600&p=3130400#post3130400
