Thanks Pierre-Yves, that is exactly what I have on my Pi4! Have you made any changes to weewx.conf in the TimeFormats section?
Barry On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 10:06:21 a.m. UTC-4 Pierre-Yves wrote: > Hi Barry, > > I live in France and use the 24h format. Weewx is installed on a Pi4. > > Below, the relevant part of the *skin.conf* file located in the *Belchertown > skin folder*. When I installed the Belchertown skin few years ago, I > didn't do any modification to have the right format. > > [Units] > # This section is for managing the selection and formatting of units. > > [[Groups]] > #... > > [[StringFormats]] > # ... > > [[Labels]] > # ... > > [[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 Customization 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 > > Pierre-Yves > > Le jeudi 5 mai 2022 à 14:32:09 UTC+2, [email protected] a écrit : > >> Well, just for the "fun" of it, I did a complete re-install of Linux and >> Weewx (at the moment the computer is only being used to play with Weewx). >> From a clean install I am still not able to change to the 24hr format for >> Weewx. Not that it should matter, but Linux is set to the 24hr format. The >> 4 [[[[ that surround TimeFormats has come up in the clean install, so I >> guess it was nothing I did!! Immediately before [[[[TimeFormats]]]] in >> the weewx.conf is [[[[Groups]]]] and any changes I make there are actioned. >> It's not the end of the world that the time is in the 12 hr format, it's >> now become a battle of (old) man against machine! If anyone has the 24hr >> time format running ok could they post the relevant parts of their config >> file?? >> >> Barry >> >> On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 4:49:14 p.m. UTC-4 vince wrote: >> >>> naaah - no need to do a full install. You're close enough that this one >>> is just tweaking something (TBD) into the right config file (TBD). >>> >>> On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 1:34:06 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for the pointer to more reference material Vince. Being new at >>>> this I have been gathering as much info as possible, unfortunately I miss >>>> some, and others are contradictory. I have no idea where the 4 [[[[ came >>>> from, probably one of my desperate cut and paste attempts! >>>> I think the safest path now is to sort out all my notes and start from >>>> scratch with a new install, at least it gives me practice playing with >>>> Linux. >>>> Barry >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 3:22:06 p.m. UTC-4 vince wrote: >>>> >>>>> For time formats, the weewx customization guide points you to the >>>>> python date/time formatting options (link) >>>>> <https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior> >>>>> saying >>>>> %A is the day of the week (ie, Monday). The Belchertown docs (link) >>>>> <https://github.com/poblabs/weewx-belchertown#a-note-about-date-and-time-formatting-in-your-locale> >>>>> do >>>>> read a little differently, pointing to the moment.js way to select a time >>>>> format, and his example in skin.conf really confuses me completely. >>>>> >>>>> See if "day = HH:MM" works perhaps.... >>>>> (untested) >>>>> >>>>> It's not clear where you're editing things though. The number of [[[[ >>>>> ]]]] pairs looks possibly wrong, which can break things. >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 11:47:20 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, I'm new to all this configurtion stuff after using a Vantage >>>>>> Pro 2 and Ambient s/w for the last 15+ years! I now have a Weatherflow >>>>>> Tempest using Weewx with the Belchertown skin on a RPi4. So far I have >>>>>> pretty much persuded it to do what I want with the exception of >>>>>> displaying >>>>>> tome in the 24 hour format. Regardless of all the changes I have made it >>>>>> insists on displaying any time in the AM / PM format i.e. 2:20:00PM >>>>>> instead >>>>>> of 14:20. >>>>>> >>>>>> From what I have read I need to make changes in: >>>>>> [Belchertown] >>>>>> [[[[TimeFormats]]]] >>>>>> day = %HH:MM >>>>>> week = %HH:MM on %A (what is the %A):: >>>>>> etc. >>>>>> etc. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have tried various combinations of %H:%M %HH:%MM %h:%m, all with >>>>>> no effect. Can some one point me in the right direction to fix this. >>>>>> Weefx >>>>>> has been restarted after each attempt to fix this!wxt >>>>>> >>>>>> Also, while on the subject of time, the time is posted to the data on >>>>>> my web page, but I can see no sign of it if I open up >>>>>> /var/www/html/weewx/index.html with my browser, is this normal? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for any help that can be given >>>>>> >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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