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HOW do I make Orage Panel time and Conky Time both the same?
I cannot find any thread or video addressing this issue.
I simply don't understand how Orage is "right" and Conky is not. And everything I dig up on Conky is about all the -other- parameters. And I was hoping not to spend the rest of my weekend learning one little thing moore...but alas.
Conky doesn't change. And I did not use any sort of shell commands to setup Conky (it's pre-loaded in this distro), so I don't "get" the file opening/parameters advanced lingo everyone is throwing around WRT Conky and the MYRIAD of settings available.
I kinda like it (conky) "out of the box" and JUST want to have the display time advanced one hour.
Really pedestrian issue but I'm just not getting a simple answer from: MX-tools, MX-help, Conky help, Conky searches, Conky DST searches here and afar.
Any you fine folks can "dumb it down" for me? thanks!
I just want local/DST time like I use on my watch and phone and all...I understand GMT/zulu as I have done plenty of worldwide radio stuff, but it's not how I want my daily extra-keep-me-on-task display to be set.
Cheers! and thanks.
I'm sure the answer is in here somewhere, but this is a bit overwhelming to the noob and I could use some assistance understanding how to work enough of this to accomplish my preference in displayed time:
let me get this clear:
a) you want conky to display a different time than what the system time is?
b) you do NOT want to fiddle with conky configs and just use the builtin conky config?
i don't think conky can display anything else but the system time.
of course, if you would agree to fiddle with it, one could think of a dozen ways to get around that, and indeed display system time +1 hour.
Sorry I wasn't clear, let me see if I can make simpler:
The clock up in the left-hand corner is not Conky (it is Orage), and I thought maybe it was showing system time. So I may have misused the term: system time. I don't know where else to look for system time.
There's Conky, displaying "Conky Time" overlay, which does not match the time being displayed in the upper left corner--the Orage Panel Clock.
The Orage Panel Clock I was able to adjust to display the time I want to see. [I]I really don't care what the system time is, but I want to observe "local time".
Orage is showing local time. Conky is not. I'd like to correct the Conky time to show local time, same as displayed on Orage.
thanks.
Last edited by Wade Patton; 03-17-2018 at 04:54 PM.
but OF COURSE nothing is said about DST or "adjusting the time". So I reckon it's simply not an option in the widget itself, that I MUST learn how to change my computer system time. Is that the answer?
And I messed up and got Conky running in my Mint system now and now I have to figure out how to kill it.
man strftime is as close as I've come to any answers so far. later.
Last edited by Wade Patton; 03-17-2018 at 05:29 PM.
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