Can I use a specific date format for CONKY?

Question

I'm playing with conky and I'm a Chinese user, so my locale of system is something like zh_CN.UTF-8 conky seems will use the system API to show the date, but I don't want conky to show date in Chinese, and I really don't want to change the locale of whole system,
so, is there any solution for this?

Thanks a lot.

Solution

According to the documentation the 'time' variable in conky takes an optional format-string. From the conky variables page i got this.

time (format) Local time, see man strftime to get more information about format

ie ${time %H:%M} will output the time in 24-hour format.

So do a man strftime to find out the correct format string for your needs.

For more information on conky variables take a look at this: conky variables

Comments

[NamiW]

thanks,but according to the man strftime,the output always according to the current locale.so finally I used some IF to do so.like this:crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/6110/…