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stuartlangridge / gnome-shell-clock-override

Override the Gnome Shell clock with a new time format or text of your choice. Works with new versions of Shell such as 3.18
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[QUESTION] (low priority!) Comma-separated seconds-since-epoch #40

Open anthonyclarka2 opened 4 years ago

anthonyclarka2 commented 4 years ago

Hello!

Thank you for writing this extension, it's great!

On my Mac I use the BitBar app to display the comma separated epoch beside my date/time display. I'd like to do something similar in Gnome and was wondering if I could use this extension to accomplish that. Essentially I want to display this: { 1,564,058,167 }

Which I would do in a script: EPOCH=$(/bin/date +%s | sed ':a;s/\B[0-9]\{3\}\>/,&/;ta') echo "{" "${EPOCH}" "}"

Do you know of a way to include the output of a script in the text set by your extension? Or, is there a way to comma separate the %s value in your extension?

Don't worry if this can't be done, I know this is a long shot. Please close this once answered, thank you.

da2x commented 4 years ago

Displaying anything that changes every second isn’t really recommended as it effects performance and battery life. However, this extension is about choice.

{ %s } will get you most of the way. Adding the thousand separator can be a bit tricky and the exact details would depend on your locale – using spaces in most regions, and commas only in former British territories. I’ll look into it.

anthonyclarka2 commented 4 years ago

Thank you so much! On the mac, I update every 100 seconds with BitBar.