Time zones

[surruk51]

I am trying to use gsimplecal as a quick and easy way of showing the time in a number of different zones. The simplicity and layout is ideal, but apart from local time (which I don't need as its on my desktop anyway) whatever i put in clock_tz I seem to get UTC

A few examples to help me out would be great At present I am trying to use BST, EDT and CDT

[dmedvinsky]

Generally, you should find the matching zones in /usr/share/zoneinfo files and then use those as the man timezone says, i.e. by specifying them as :UTC, :Europe/London, etc.

For your specific zones that would be

BST = :Europe/London (not sure about this, but as far as Google lead me to believe, London uses BST) EDT = :US/Eastern CDT = :US/Central

In terms of gsimplecal config it would like something like this:

clock_label = UTC
clock_tz = :UTC
clock_label = Local
clock_tz =
clock_label = BST
clock_tz = :Europe/London
clock_label = EDT
clock_tz = :US/Eastern
clock_label = CDT
clock_tz = :US/Central

Does this work for you?

[surruk51]

Thank you for the quick response. Your suggestions worked well.

I was confused because the example in the default config in the man pages showed only UTC which is the same in short code and long.

Maybe something like this in the man page would make it clear to dummies

like me:

clock_tz parameter locates the relevant timezone file which is held in the sub-directory /usr/share/zoneinfo/{continent}/{time zone area} where {continent} and {time zone area} represent the various valid continents and the time zone areas within them. eg: for /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London clock_tz = :Europe/London

for /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern

clock_tz = :US/Eastern

Thanks gain for your help

Chris.

On 08/06/16 16:24, Dmitry Medvinsky wrote:

Generally, you should find the matching zones in |/usr/share/zoneinfo| files and then use those as the |man timezone| says, i.e. by specifying them as |:UTC|, |:Europe/London|, etc.

For your specific zones that would be

BST = :Europe/London (not sure about this, but as far as Google lead me to believe, London uses BST) EDT = :US/Eastern CDT = :US/Central

In terms of gsimplecal config it would like something like this:

|clock_label = UTC clock_tz = :UTC clock_label = Local clock_tz = clock_label = BST clock_tz = :Europe/London clock_label = EDT clock_tz = :US/Eastern clock_label = CDT clock_tz = :US/Central |

Does this work for you?

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[dmedvinsky]

Added more examples and clarified the setting a little in the man page: 2dc6bbab18f51ee2ad0eb33f9b8ff48db849f95e