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[angelsonefive]

OSMO and pupclockset 1.9.2 have no effect. Is there another way to change from military time to 12 hour clock?

[8-bit]

Right_click on the digital clock in the task bar.
Select "Digital Clock" settings.
In the window that appears, change the "%R" to "%1:%M %p" .
Then close the window and restart the the window manager.

That worked for me in Slacko 5.4 running comp-fusion.

[angelsonefive]

Doesn't work, both left and right click simply open the OSMO calendar

[8-bit]

In the case of not seeing that option when right-clicking on the taskbar digital time display, you can try another solution.

Click on the House on the desktop to open ROX in the /root directory.
Then Click on the EYE to show hidden files.
Next, right-click on .jwmrc-tray and select Open as text.
At the end of that file, you will see a line that says:
"<Clock format="%H:%M">minixcal</Clock>" without the outside quotes.

Change that line again without the outside quotes to:
"<Clock format="%1:%M %p">minixcal</Clock>"

Restart the window manager and you should be greeted with am/pm type of time display.

This is for the Openbox and JWM window managers by the way.

It does not work when running xfce4 as window manager and also with comp-fusion.

Let us know if it works for you.

[angelsonefive]

I made sure that my window manager is JWM and I pasted the line below, then restarted the window manager and also the X server but still shows 22.57 as the time format.


<Clock format="%l:%M %p">minixcal</Clock>

[8-bit]

I do not know what is going on with the forum . But the character after the first percent sign is the numeral 1.
It is not showing as that so I will try doing a paste of it to this message in a code box.
I did not do it because the line was again changed.

So here it is manually I hope.



<Clock format="%1:%M %p">minixcal</Clock>

That seemed to work although I had to edit the line as a paste into the message had changed the %1 to a %l (lower case L).

So be sure that the character after the first percent sign is the numeral one.

It should then work for you.

[postfs1]

[Jasper]

Hi,

If all else fails - left click on /root/.jwmrc-tray, then arrow
down to the bottom of the file, then amend the Clock line to:
<Clock format="%H:%M">minixcal</Clock>
then save
then use Menu>Shutdown>Restart JWM

My regards

[Flash]

[russoodle]

[CatDude]

Hi

I do not think that %1 (that's a number one) is a valid parameter.

According to this page the closest things resembling it are either a lower case letter ell, or an uppercase letter i

The images below show the result of using:

%1:%M %p (a number one)
%I:%M %p (an uppercase letter i)

in Slacko-5.4 running Compiz and the LXPanel.

In both instances there is no AM/PM shown after the time.

CatDude
.

[Jasper]

Hi CatDude et al,

If am/pm is needed does:

<Clock format="%l:%M %p">minixcal</Clock>

that's a lower case L - work.

My regards

PS the space beween %M and %p inserts a space in the output.

[CatDude]

Hello Jasper

[Jasper]

Hi CatDude,

Thanks for joining with your expertise.

I have reread angelonefives words twice more and I still miss
any mention of LXPanel (or for that matter am/pm).

Either I missed the reference, or you, in your wisdom, made
that assumption or already knew otherwise.

I have never used LXPanel, but it does seem that the 12 hour
clock is available, perhaps without am/pm.

My regards

[CatDude]

Hello Jasper