> > I must have fat-fingered the Weewx configuration during the install process
No, that's the default setting for rpi's and the locale needs to be changed after installation finishes. On Sun, 8 Feb 2026 at 17:26, Rod in Edm <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> -- >>> "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all >>> possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." >>> Web: https://www.n0nb.us >>> Projects: https://github.com/N0NB >>> GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 >>> >>> -- > 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/51cbb2bf-5616-4dc9-8217-e6506479aeean%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/51cbb2bf-5616-4dc9-8217-e6506479aeean%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAGTinV6b30c-nW3Uf-3DNU0acB2McBiismJcsfZ-Wfdes2DJbw%40mail.gmail.com.
