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====== xfce4-panel - Clock ======

The Clock panel plugin displays the current time in a variety of styles and formats, and allows for custom tooltips to appear on hover. It also provides a basic calendar that appears when clicked.

  * **[[#Time Settings|Time Settings]]**
  * **[[#Appearance|Appearance]]**
  * **[[#Clock Options|Clock Options]]**
  * **[[#Label and Tooltip Markup|Label and Tooltip Markup]]**

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===== Preferences =====

<figure "Clock Preferences">{{:xfce:xfce4-panel:4.16:xfce4-panel-clock.png?nolink&|}}</figure>

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===== Time Settings =====
? Timezone
! Allows you to set a custom timezone for the clock by entering the name of a file in the zoneinfo database. If left blank, the clock uses the localtime.

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===== Appearance =====
? Layout
    ? Analogue
    ! Displays a round, analogue clock with an hour, minute and optionally second hand in the panel.
    ? Binary
    ! Displays a grid with highlighted tiles depicting the time in binary.
    ? Digital
    ! Displays the time digitally.
    ? Fuzzy
    ! Displays the time as words rather than using numbers.
    ? LCD
    ! Displays the time in the style of an LCD clock.

? Tooltip format
! Changes the format of the time that gets displayed in the tooltip when hovering over the clock plugin.

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===== Clock Options =====
The options available will vary depending on the clock {gui>Layout} selected.

^ Analogue ^^ 
| Display seconds | Displays the seconds hand on the clock face |

^ Binary ^^ 
| Display seconds | Displays seconds on the clock |
| True binary clock | Enlarges the grid and displays 2 / 3 rows rather than 4 |
| Show Inactive Dots | Show empty dots |
| Show grid | Adds gridlines to the clock |

^ Digital ^^ 
| Format | Changes the format in which the time is displayed with a predefined or custom format |

^ Fuzzy ^^ 
| Fuzziness | Changes the degree of 'fuzziness' that the clock will display. 0 being the most accurate (displaying "six o'clock" for example), 1 being less accurate, and 2 being the least accurate (displaying "Afternoon" for example) |

^ LCD ^^ 
| Display seconds | Displays a seconds indicator on the clock |
| 24-hour clock | Displays time in a 24-hour (military) format |
| Flash time separators | Flash the separators between digits every second |
| Show AM/PM | Displays an 'A' or 'P' next to the time to indicate the time of day |

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===== Label and Tooltip Markup =====

The plugin supports markup to change the layout of the tooltip and the label on the panel. For more information on Pango, the markup used for the label, see the [[https://docs.gtk.org/Pango/pango_markup.html|Pango Text Attribute Markup]] manual to see what attributes are supported (e.g. font face, color etc).

The following is a list of available label format control sequences copied from a ''date'' utility manual (''man date''), reduced by those that are not supported by [[https://developer-old.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-GDateTime.html#g-date-time-format|GDateTime]]:

^ Symbol      ^ Meaning        ^
| %% | a literal % |
| %a | locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun) |
| %A | locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday) | 
| %b | locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan) | 
| %B | locale's full month name (e.g., January) | 
| %c | locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar  3 23:05:25 2005) |
| %C | century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 21) |
| %d | day of month (e.g, 01) |
| %e | day of month, space padded; same as %_d |
| %F | full date; same as %Y-%m-%d |
| %g | last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G) |
| %G | year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V |
| %h | same as %b |
| %H | hour (00..23) |
| %I | hour (01..12) |
| %j | day of year (001..366) |
| %k | hour ( 0..23) |
| %l | hour ( 1..12) |
| %m | month (01..12) |
| %M | minute (00..59) |
| %n | a newline |
| %p | locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known |
| %P | like %p, but lower case |
| %r | locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM) |
| %R | 24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M |
| %s | seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC |
| %S | second (00..60) |
| %t | a tab |
| %T | time; same as %H:%M:%S | 
| %u | day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday |
| %V | ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53) |
| %w | day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday |
| %x | locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99) |
| %X | locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48) |
| %y | last two digits of year (00..99) |
| %Y | year |
| %z | +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400) |
| %:z | +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00) |
| %::z |+hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00) |
| %:::z | numeric time zone  with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30) |
| %Z | alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT) |

By default, numeric fields are padded with 0's. The following optional flags may follow ''%'':

^ Flag      ^ Meaning        ^
| O (uppercase "o") | use alternative numeric symbols, if the current locale supports those |
| - (hyphen) | do not pad the field |
| _ (underscore) | pad with spaces |
| 0 (zero) | pad with zeros |

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