expanding for use outside hive-mvc.

README.md

@@ -8,13 +8,26 @@ More complex intervals can be expressed as  a function that recievs the time as
 
 The cronomter mixin fires off at -1000... (very negative number) so other mixins can use it.
 
-## Installing Chronometer
+## Installing Chronometer in hive-mvc
 
 put the chronometer file in any resources/mixins folder.
 you should not have more than one chronometer in a hive-mvc project;
 it is written to only install itself
 if there is not a chronometer in the apiary's config already.
 
+## Using Chronomter outside of hive-mvc.
+
+the export of chronometer is a function for use in hive-mvc; however it does have a Chronometer constructor as a property so
+you can just call;
+
+``` javascript
+    var my_sandbox = {};
+    var my_chron = new (require('./chronometer.js'))Chronometer(my_sandbox);
+
+```
+
+The single argument to Chronometer(Chron_Manager) isn't used any way by Chronometer.
+
 ## Example mixin using Chronometer:
 
 ``` javascript
@@ -80,4 +93,19 @@ that the manager emits.
 ## The last of the timelords
 
 The manager's clock can be started and stopped; you can call `manager.stop_clock()` or `manager.start_clock`.
-This is useful for unit tests or other scenarios where you want to control the execution of long tasks.
+This is useful for unit tests or other scenarios where you want to control the execution of long tasks.
+
+You could, for instnace, stop the clock and fire off times at whatever interval you please -- every five minutes,
+every 15 minutes, every hour....
+
+## Why this doesn't use/emulate CHRON
+
+I find the notation of Chron overly arcane. I figured its best to just handle the "Extreme" scenarios:
+
+1. You want to do something on a regular interval (pretty common)
+2. You want to do something on a strange interval (for which you can write a function).
+
+Giving you a function that interprets an absolute time really frees you up. You can execute on a given set of
+absolute dates, or even pull a set of times from a data feed and execute on those times.
+
+If the Chron system of notation works for you, using node-chron is pretty easy, and chronometer is not the module for you.

chronometer.js

@@ -115,4 +115,6 @@ module.exports = function (apiary, cb) {
             done();
         }
     }); // end callback
-}
+};
+
+module.exports.Chronomter = Chron_Manager;

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 {
     "name": "chronometer",
-    "privtae": true,
     "version": "0.0.1",
     "description": "a hive-mvc mixin to fire off events at given intervals",
     "main": "chronometer.js",