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Originally Posted by Hanspeter
Yep, it gives me the twelve hour time too. But what I need is a statement that gives on my Kindel (witch is set to 24Hour clock, not AM/PM) the 24 Hour time without seconds and on an other Kindle that is set to 12 AM/PM hour clock the 12 hour time including AM/PM.
From my point of view I have three possibilities:
1) I would need to find a way to tell the date statement to decide this on the fly
2) Add an If to the statement and use a different format string depending on the result
3) Add an If statement and duplicate all versions of the may statement with different format stings.
Version 3 would be the easiest, but I do not like that stile of coding to simply multiply all lines on the same call only with a small different template.
I think date +%X gives me what I need, but I would need some awk or sed command around it to remove the seconds:
Code:
~$ date +%X
19:32:13
I would expect that you would get '07:32:13 PM'
Hape |
The date command does not work that way, it is reading a 64 bit number of microseconds.
Its output is not effected by how the GUI is displaying the time.
I have never programmed in Awk.
You could do it easy enough in Lua - It includes a system call with output formatting similar to the date command.
But being a full programming language, your not limited to the output format.
Lua is pre-installed on all touchscreen devices.