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Time Since Last Resume

It's handy to know when to take a break.

Log the time when the system resumes from standby / sleep / hibernation

Reference: System-D Suspend Service

$ nano /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/sinceresume
#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
  post)
    logger "sinceresume resumed"
    ;;
esac

Grep the time out of the syslog

$ grep "sinceresume resumed" /var/log/syslog | tail -n 1

Time since last resume

$ cat sinceresume.sh 
#!/bin/bash

# Get the syslog entry from the command line argument
syslog_entry="$(grep sinceresume /var/log/syslog | tail -n 1)"

# Extract the timestamp from the syslog entry using awk
timestamp=$(echo "$syslog_entry" | awk '{print $1, $2, $3}')

# Convert the extracted timestamp to a Unix timestamp
syslog_unix_timestamp=$(date -d "$timestamp" "+%s")


# Get the current Unix timestamp
current_unix_timestamp=$(date "+%s")

# Calculate the number of seconds since the syslog timestamp
seconds_since_syslog=$((current_unix_timestamp - syslog_unix_timestamp))
minutes_since_syslog=$((seconds_since_syslog / 60))

echo "$minutes_since_syslog minutes since your last break ($timestamp)"

I've added this to my shell startup.