Thx, Peter. Yeah I read elsewhere (Stackflow?) that the p and P are flipped from what's intuitive. Wierd.
On Saturday, 7 February 2026 at 19:54:01 UTC-7 p q wrote: > I have %-I:%M %p and I get uppercase AM/PM. > > I asked Claude.ai and it says (and I'm not sure I believe it!) that %p > gives uppercase AM/PM and %P gives lowercase on Linux. > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM Rod in Edm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Long time WView/Weewx user. Running Weewx 5.2.0 / Seasons skin 5.2.0 on >> RPi4B with RaspberryPi OS 64-bit Trixie. Fresh install of Trixie / Weewx >> 5.2.0 on Pi4, using Weewx Simulator for now (Vantage 2 is real hardware >> target). Locale configured on Weewx install as Ottawa (Canada) and >> Edmonton/America, English (essentially MST). >> >> Trying to format report and graphical image time to give me "12:05:34 >> PM". To get this in reports, I'm replacing "%x.%X" in weewx,conf => >> StdReport => Defaults => Units => TimeFormats with >> >> hour = %I:%M:%S %p >> etc >> >> and then restarting weewx (and when that didn't work, stopping weewx and >> rebooting the RPi4B). I'm getting "12:05:34 pm", instead of "12:05:34 PM" >> in my reports. >> >> Since Weewx uses strftime() directives to format time, and that >> function's manual page shows "%p" as the format for "PM". I'm not sure >> what's going on. After reading the strftime() directives doc more >> carefully, I figured I'd try "%P" ... but that didn't make any difference. >> I get that locale plays a role in this formatting. >> >> NOT the end of the world, but annoying that I can't dope out what appears >> to be a simple problem. Did a search of the forum posts using a mixture of >> keywords, but I don't see anything relevant - so I assume I'm just doing >> something stupid. >> >> What am I missing here? >> Rod >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/81164eb0-9295-4eb7-a5ed-39ec81bc9926n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/81164eb0-9295-4eb7-a5ed-39ec81bc9926n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > Peter Quinn > (415)794-2264 <(415)%20794-2264> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/76d5d362-f6d3-4d4d-9fac-99006732b4c5n%40googlegroups.com.
