Date/Time Format Change

[Jeff DeWolfe]

Hello All- Now that I have Weewx up and running I was hoping to get the webpage working. I was able to change the skin and get the radar image and link updated. However, I would now like to change it so that it displays the observation time in 12hr format and change the date to MM/DD/YYYY. Can someone point me to where I would change that? I've looked in the skin.conf and weewx.conf but didn't see it there. I also looked in the users guide, but didn't find how to change it. Thanks in advance!!

Jeff 

[Andrew Milner]

First place of call is always the weewx users guide and customisation guide!!

From the customising guide:

http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#Time_period_$current

from which you will see that in the template file (which is probably index.html.tmpl) change $current.dateTime to $current.dateTime.format("XXXXXX") where XXXXXX is datetime formatting taken from http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior

That should be enough to do the trick!!

[Steve]

This is what my skin.conf looks like for day, month, year. Using the link Andrew supplied, you'll see what they all mean. For 12 hour format, you'll want to replace the %H with %I

    [[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    = %d-%b-%Y %H:%M
        ephem_day  = %H:%M
        ephem_year = %d-%b-%Y %H:%M

Regards,

Steve.

On Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:56:25 UTC+11, Jeff DeWolfe wrote:

[Jeff DeWolfe]

Thanks to both of you. I did some fiddling around after Andrew posted the first reply and got it to where I want. Thanks again!

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[George Alexander]

Hi. My apologies for posting on a thread that is so old, however it's the first one that comes up in a Google search so it made no sense to start afresh.

I've read through the customisation guide and the user guide, and it would appear, unless I'm blind, that the files have been changed since this question was first asked. I can't find the Time customisation table in any of the .conf files anywhere. I also can't see the section mentioned above about changing the format in the customisation guide.

I'd like to change the date format to DD.MM.YYYY in the standard skin output. My Pi localisation is set to this already, however both the Standard and Simple skin outputs don't seem to be listening to that, and are outputting MM.DD.YYYY.

Thanks very much.

[Dave Webb KB1PVH]

George,

Date Format

FORMAT is a sequence of characters which specifies how output will appear. It comprises some combination of the following sequences:

%%	a literal percent sign ("%").
%a	The abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun).
%A	The full weekday name (e.g., Sunday).
%b	The abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan).
%B	locale's full month name (e.g., January).
%c	The date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005).
%C	The current century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 20).
%d	day of month (e.g., 01).
%D	date; same as %m/%d/%y.
%e	day of month, space padded; same as %_d.
%F	full date; same as %Y-%m-%d.
%g	last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G).
%G	year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V.
%h	same as %b.
%H	hour (00..23).
%I	hour (01..12).
%j	day of year (001..366).
%k	hour, space padded ( 0..23); same as %_H.
%l	hour, space padded ( 1..12); same as %_I.
%m	month (01..12).
%M	minute (00..59).
%n	a newline.
%N	nanoseconds (000000000..999999999).
%p	locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known.
%P	like %p, but lower case.
%r	locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM).
%R	24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M.
%s	seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
%S	second (00..60).
%t	a tab.
%T	time; same as %H:%M:%S.
%u	day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday.
%U	week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53).
%V	ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53).
%w	day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday.
%W	week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53).
%x	locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99).
%X	locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48).
%y	last two digits of year (00..99).
%Y	year
%z	+hhmm numeric time zone (e.g., -0400).
%:z	+hh:mm numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00).
%::z	+hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00).
%:::z	numeric time zone with ":" to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30).
%Z	alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)

Dave-KB1PVH

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[Dave Webb KB1PVH]

Also read this thread.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/weewx-user/date$20string%7Csort:relevance/weewx-user/6elynV-7kEg/sm5uWsl3AAAJ

Dave-KB1PVH

[George Alexander]

Hi Dave. Thanks for that - I managed to use a table like that to get date/time format that way I wanted it on a capture script for the camera on my Pi. What I dont know is where to put the format string - in the weewx.conf file? Or is it the skin template file, or the skin.conf file itself? Unfortunately the link you posted only takes me to my own Google groups main menu, not a particular thread.

Thanks again.

[Dave Webb KB1PVH]

Look for this in your skin.conf

[[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

Dave-KB1PVH

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[George Alexander]

Thanks very much Dave - I have no idea how I missed that the first time I looked through the skin.conf file.

[George Alexander]

ahhh so close...

http://203.114.173.126:180/weewx/simple/index.html

For some reason that I have yet to work out, the dates/times on the right under the records have conformed to the change in the skin.conf file, but the labels under the graphs have not. Any suggestions would be greatly received thanks.

[Andrew Milner]

bottom_label_format in the images section of the skin.conf

see example in:

http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#Customizing_images