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| author | Martin Perner <martin@perner.cc> | 2011-10-26 01:00:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Martin Perner <martin@perner.cc> | 2011-10-26 02:01:05 +0200 |
| commit | 9718dabe6c6d5979e3f6837ef04a39d3ad8c786c (patch) | |
| tree | a4b13708063b856499989bd453d7c28a335b55e7 /README | |
| parent | 218d07606a7564cdcde5974d53b8e81d04c02a44 (diff) | |
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Adding locale support to Date plugins
This commits adds support for localized datetime outputs like date(1).
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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ Otherwise, you'll need to install them yourself. [alsa-mixer] package. `with_datezone` -: Support for localized times. Enables the DateZone plugin. Requires - [timezone-olson] and [timezone-series] package. +: Support for other timezones. Enables the DateZone and DateZoneL plugin. + Requires [timezone-olson] and [timezone-series] package. `all_extensions` : Enables all the extensions above. @@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ can be used in the output template as `%mydate%` `strftime` function (or Haskell's `formatCalendarTime`). - Sample usage: `Run Date "%a %b %_d %Y <fc=#ee9a00>%H:%M:%S</fc>" "date" 10` -`Date Format Alias Zone RefreshRate` +`DateZone Format Alias Zone RefreshRate` - Format is a time format string, as accepted by the standard ISO C `strftime` function (or Haskell's `formatCalendarTime`). @@ -881,6 +881,24 @@ can be used in the output template as `%mydate%` - Sample usage: `Run DateZone "<fc=#ee9a00>%H:%M:%S</fc>" "viennaDate" "Europa/Vienna" 10` +`DateL Format Locale Alias RefreshRate` + +- Behaves as Date but localizes the output +- If Locale is "" the default locale of the system is used, otherwise the given + locale +- As this plugin calls `setlocale`, there can only be one locale used, besides + English (default of Haskell, used in Date and DateZone) with DateL and + DateZoneL. If multiple plugin instances, with different locales, are used + the result is a race condition, but consistent between all plugins. +- Usage with system locale: + `Run DateL "%B" "" "date" 10` +- Usage with german locale: + `Run DateL "%B" "de_DE.UTF-8" "date" 10` + +`DateZoneL Format Locale Alias Zone RefreshRate` + +- Behaves as DateZone but localizes the output +- Please check DateL for information's about Locale `CommandReader "/path/to/program" Alias` @@ -1109,4 +1127,7 @@ Copyright © 2010-2011 Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz [libmpd]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/libmpd/ [sawfish]: http://sawfish.wikia.com/ [utf8-string]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/utf8-string/ +[alsa-core]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/alsa-core [alsa-mixer]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/alsa-mixer +[timezone-olson]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/timezone-olson +[timezone-series]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/timezone-series |