7.4.2 - Have you ever wanted a BS-free time format in mc?

[Werner P. Schulz]

Quite a while ago I dug up the sources for mc-4.6.1 and started looking for a way to change the display format.
I came up with a patch (see attachments to this message) which successfully gave me the time format displayed the way I wanted in mc.

The other way is to edit the lines "timeformat..." to "..=%F %R" (man strftime) within '../.config/mc/ini' for the user knoppix and for root. Close the terminal and start again a terminal to have the changed datetime format.

[philo]

@ Werner

Is there a way to achieve that change of time & date formats for PCManFM?

Regards

[chris_Xnest]

The other way is to edit the lines "timeformat..." to "..=%F %R" (man strftime) within '../.config/mc/ini' for the user knoppix and for root. Close the terminal and start again a terminal to have the changed datetime format.

Wow! Stunning! I had no idea they introduced this feature! It wasn't there in mc-4.6.2!

I just tested it and it doesn't work there.
They must have added it afterwards, but I was just assumimg brute force was still needed.

I did what you described here in K7.6.2 and it works great.
Nice to know you don't need to kick the door open because the handle actually works...

If you had not told me about this, I would have never known!
I was just going to assume the dumbness would stay there forever...

[Werner P. Schulz]

Is there a way to achieve that change of time & date formats for PCManFM?

As I can see it's hardcoded within PCManFM only to use the locale settings.

[chris_Xnest]

By the way, my preference for now is to use LXDE, but not with Metacity as a window manager.
I use Kwin (I modified the entry in /home/knoppix/.config/lxsession/LXDE/{config,desktop.conf}).
And while I'm at it, I also use Konqueror instead of pcmanfm, I find pcmanfm too primitive.
With konqueror I can customize the context menu to add my own actions backed by scripts...

And things like time and date are easy to set in KDE System Settings, other things are still hackable...

I tried for curiosity's sake to look in the sources for the place to hack in order to change the time & date format, but I couldn't figure out an exact place or way and I don't have too much time on my hands to dig.
Maybe asking the programmer would be the best and quickest way to figure, like I did with konqueror.