Huh ... all your responses suggest that it must be my "locale" settings
that are doing this to me.
My aging RPi3B running Weewx 5.2.0 and Seasons 4.6.2 shows the right
date-time format, and my new setup doesn't. There's hardly any difference
between them (as far as I know), so the locale setting must be issue.
Using Terminal (I'm on a Mac), I' entered "locale" on both systems. I'm
frustrated by what I see:
Old RPi3B system: locale displays as en.CA.UTF-8
New RPi4B system: locale displays as en.GB.UTF-8 {WTH?!?}
I must have fat-fingered the Weewx configuration during the install
process. I'll change the new system locale to be en.CA.UTF-8 and see what
happens. I'm pretty sure this is my problem, and if it is I'll come back
here and confirm it to close this thread off.
I hate it when I turn out to be my problem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rod
On Saturday, 7 February 2026 at 21:33:36 UTC-7 Vince Skahan wrote:
> $current.dateTime.format(format_string="%c") works nicely for me.....
>
> Sat 07 Feb 2026 08:30:00 PM PST
>
> On Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 7:43:08 PM UTC-8 Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
>> I didn't use the %p/%P but I have this which appears at the top of my
>> customized Standard kin:
>>
>> <h2>$current.dateTime.format(format_string="%a %d %b %Y %H:%M %Z
>> (%z)")</h2>
>>
>> The result is:
>>
>> Sat 07 Feb 2026 21:35 CST (-0600)
>>
>> I do a similar format for the images:
>>
>> bottom_label_format = %a %d %b '%y %H:%M %Z
>>
>> Which becomes:
>>
>> Sat 07 Feb '26 21:35 CST
>>
>> I guess since I opted for 24 hour time and adding the time zone I didn't
>> see the issue you are.
>>
>> - Nate
>>
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