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

On 2008-11-13, Juri Mianovich <juri_mian-/[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
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