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[yorkiesnorkie]

Note that I goofed up on the original post so I have corrected it!

To return Puppy's clock to the 12 hour format instead of the default 24 hour clock:

Go to ~/root/ and show all files.

Open the file ".jwmrc-tray" with geany.

Scroll down to the bottom of the file until you see the following entry:

<Clock format="%H:%M ">minixcal</Clock>

I always like to comment out old lines. Comment out the line with "<!--" at the beginning and "-->" at the end.

<!-- <Clock format="%H:%M ">minixcal</Clock>-->

Saving the old entry in a comment will allow you to revert back to the 24 hour clock later should you wish to change it back.

"%H" is the 24 hour setting. You will need to change it to "%I". That is an uppercase letter i. Adding "%p" adds am pm to the time.

Enter a new line below the comment. Edit the line as follows entering "<Clock format="%I:%M%p ">minixcal</Clock> " You can copy and paste the text below:

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

Save the file. You can choose menu/refresh menus to refresh the desktop or reboot to see the change in the clock.

5 PM will now appear as "05:53 PM" in the JWM menu tray.

Consult the following references for more clock settings:

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdln_clock.htm

Yorkiesnorkie

[maggotspawn]

Cool fix, thanks.

[Kal]

Puppy 421 doesn't have "xclock" installed normally. So, if you want a calender when clicking on the tray clock, use minixcal or set-time-for-puppy instead of xclock, as I do. Using xclock will cause no harm, it just won't run without installing it first.

Good Luck, Kal

[yorkiesnorkie]

Whoops! I goofed up! Check out this URL:

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdln_clock.htm

All you have to do is change the command from this:

<Clock format="%H:%M ">minixcal</Clock>

To this:

<Clock format="%I:%M ">minixcal</Clock>

The %I is for 12 hour clock! I'm ammending the original post!

Yorkie Snorkie

[yorkiesnorkie]

[Kal]

Hi yorkiesnorkie

Much more better, thank you for posting this. Who isn't learning?

Kal