Thank you for the speedy reply. I will test the locale change shortly.
Here is the extras section of my skin.conf.
###############################################################################
# The following section is for any extra tags that you want to be available
in the templates
[Extras]
# This radar image would be available as $Extras.radar_img
radar_img =
http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/PACSOUTHWEST_loop.gif
# radar_img =
https://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=RTX&brand=wui&num=18&delay=15&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1.000&noclutter=1&showlabels=1&severe=1
# This URL will be used as the image hyperlink:
# radar_url =
https://radar.weather.gov/?settings=v1_eyJhZ2VuZGEiOnsiaWQiOm51bGwsImNlbnRlciI6Wy0xMjEuOTE3LDQ1LjY2XSwiem9vbSI6OH0sImJhc2UiOiJzdGFuZGFyZCIsImNvdW50eSI6ZmFsc2UsImN3YSI6ZmFsc2UsInN0YXRlIjpmYWxzZSwibWVudSI6dHJ1ZSwic2hvcnRGdXNlZE9ubHkiOmZhbHNlfQ%3D%3D#/
radar_url = http://radar.weather.gov/region/pacsouthwest/standard
# If you have a Google Analytics ID, uncomment and edit the next line,
and
# the analytics code will be included in your generated HTML files:
#googleAnalyticsId = UA-12345678-1
###############################################################################
The commented lines appeared to "overrun" the e-mail line length. In the
actual file, they are fine.
On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 11:46:45 AM UTC-7 Tom Keffer wrote:
> 1. Why not just continue to use your old skins? For the most part, skins
> have been upwardly compatible for a long time. In any event, to answer your
> question, we need a little more information. What does your [Extras]
> section look like in skin.conf?
>
> 2. The WeeWX applications work like any other Unix application: the
> date/time formats are set by the environment variable LANG. You didn't say
> what your value is for LANG, but I assume some European locale. To see
> what it is, use the locale command:
>
> *locale*
>
>
> You can override individual categories by using LC_xxx environment
> variables. For example, to use US style dates and times, you could use
>
> *LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 weewxd*
>
>
> The GNU documentation does a pretty good job of describing how this all
> works
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Locale-Environment-Variables.html>
> .
>
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 11:27 AM William Webb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have version 4 of Weewx running well after having used version 3 for a
>> very long time. I have two questions.
>>
>> 1. In the standard report, I would like to display weather radar data. I
>> added the URL and GIF information into skin.conf. Radar info was not
>> displayed.. Likely other changes are needed but I don't know what they
>> are. I don't remember doing anything special in version 3, however, its
>> been a while!
>>
>> 2. The date time format default in the standard skin is the European
>> format d/m/y. I would like to use the US format m/d/y globally, all
>> charts, all heading, etc. Is there a way to make this global change? Did I
>> miss something?
>>
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