Re: quickly cloning an existing statusbar script (date)?

Hello,


--- On Thu, 11/13/08, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:

> > But the statusbar just has a "??" in it for
> "%ukdate", even though that
> > script exists.
> 
> The monitor must of course be modified to use the correct
> meter names...
> 
> > ALSO, I am not sure how I would edit statusd_ukdate.lc
> to have a +7 hours
> > in its 'date' command, since the .lc file is
> not text, but just binary
> > data.
> 
> ... for which you need to modify the original .lua file.


Thanks for your response.  I think I will pursue it this way,
which is to create a %ukdate.

So, in addition to adding a second item to the default
template, like this:

template="[  %date  %ukdate  ] %filler%systray",

and adding this block of code to cfg_statusbar.lua:

ukdate={
ukdate_format='  %a %Y-%m-%d %H:%M  UK'
}

I also need to:

- edit the monitor
- find the original lua file for statusd_date.lc, edit it
  for a +7 (hard hack for DST, sorry) and recompile it to
  a lc file

If that is correct, would you tell me what/where "the monitor"
is ?

I am going to change this line:

statusd.inform('date', os.date(settings.date_format, tm))

to this:

statusd.inform('date -v +7H', os.date(settings.date_format, tm))

does that seem reasonable ?

Thanks again.