Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde

$ curl -s “http://search.twitter.com/search?from=zurvollenstunde&rpp=1″ | grep -E ‘(Es ist jetzt|ago)’ | sed ‘s/<[^>]*>//g;s/[^[:digit:]]//g’ | xargs | sed -e ‘s#\ #:#’

This combines @zurvollenstunde’s hourly tweets and the “n minutes ago” from Twitter search.

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by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)

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