switch current time showing on website from 24hr to 12 hr am/pm

[Barry Schwartz]

how do I change $current.datetime or some other variable so that the current date and time of the data on the webpage uses the 12 hr am/pm clock rather than the 24 hr clock?

which file and what variable?

raspi/Debian/weewx 2.64

Thanks for any info

Barry

website at 

http://bschwartz.net/weewxfl/

[Thomas Keffer]

It's in the Customizing Guide.

-tk

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[Dave Webb KB1PVH]

Barry,

Look in skin.conf for this

[[TimeFormats]]

        #

        # This section sets the string format to be used

        # each time scale.

        #

        day        = %H:%M

        week       = %H:%M on %A

        month      = %d-%b-%Y %H:%M

        year       = %d-%b-%Y %H:%M

        rainyear   = %d-%b-%Y %H:%M

        current    = %B-%d-%Y %H:%M

        ephem_day  = %H:%M

        ephem_year = %d-%b-%Y %H:%M

Change the code to how you want it to look.

Code	Meaning	Example
%a	Weekday as locale’s abbreviated name.	Wed
%A	Weekday as locale’s full name.	Wednesday
%w	Weekday as a decimal number, where 0 is Sunday and 6 is Saturday.	3
%d	Day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number.	25
%b	Month as locale’s abbreviated name.	Dec
%B	Month as locale’s full name.	December
%m	Month as a zero-padded decimal number.	12
%y	Year without century as a zero-padded decimal number.	13
%Y	Year with century as a decimal number.	2013
%H	Hour (24-hour clock) as a zero-padded decimal number.	17
%I	Hour (12-hour clock) as a zero-padded decimal number.	05
%p	Locale’s equivalent of either AM or PM.	PM
%M	Minute as a zero-padded decimal number.	15
%S	Second as a zero-padded decimal number.	30
%f	Microsecond as a decimal number, zero-padded on the left.	000000
%z	UTC offset in the form +HHMM or -HHMM (empty string if the the object is naive).
%Z	Time zone name (empty string if the object is naive).
%j	Day of the year as a zero-padded decimal number.	359
%U	Week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a zero padded decimal number. All days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are considered to be in week 0.	51
%W	Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number. All days in a new year preceding the first Monday are considered to be in week 0.	51
%c	Locale’s appropriate date and time representation.	Wed Dec 25 17:15:30 2013
%x	Locale’s appropriate date representation.	12/25/13
%X	Locale’s appropriate time representation.	17:15:30
%%	A literal '%' character.	%

  

Dave-KB1PVH

[Barry Schwartz]

Ok, I found the list and understand to get the data that I want I need to use:

%I:%M %p but I am not sure of the syntax to place this in the weewx/skins/index.html.tmpl  where it now shows $current.datetime

[Dave Webb KB1PVH]

Barry,

In the example I gave  you should just need to change all the %H:%M to %I:%M %p in skin.conf.  then stop and start Weewx and the time format will be 12hr clock instead of 24. There's nothing to change in index.html.tmpl

Dave-KB1PVH

Sent from my Samsung S4

[Barry Schwartz]

Now I get it. I made the change and it is working the way I want it to.

Linux and setting up whew and raspi, etc has been a steep learning curve if you are not a programer but following all the posted directions that Tom has given and asking a few questions have made all the difference in the world.

Thanks for the help.

Barry

On Friday, February 13, 2015 at 5:04:06 PM UTC-5, Barry Schwartz wrote:

[Messy Potamia]

Sorry -- I'm just not getting it. I want the time portion of my Current Weather Conditions header to read "21:10:00" instead of "09:10:00 PM" and I have looked in the configuration guide and I still don't get it, because my skin.conf looks like this:
[[TimeFormats]]
        # This section sets the string format to be used for each time scale.
        # The values below will work in every locale, but may not look
        # particularly attractive. See the Customizing Guide for alternatives.

        day        = %X
        week       = %X (%A)
        month      = %x %X
        year       = %x %X
        rainyear   = %x %X
        current    = %x %X
        ephem_day  = %X
        ephem_year = %x %X
and the descriptions in the post don't make sense to me, i.e. "%X" is described as "locale's appropriate time representation".
Not sure which of the above to change so it forces it to HH:MM:SS and without the AM/PM.

[Messy Potamia]

Okay - I get it. Sorry it must be getting late. After experimenting with the "current =" tag, I now know where to change it.
Thank you.