Description

GeoDateTime is a plugin which allows for a configurable display of the system's time, date, and uptime information.

Author and Download

It was created by Jaykul, and can be downloaded from http://geoshell.com/plugins/zoom.asp?id=250.

Registry Settings

Font

String that specifies the font and size in which the date/time data will be displayed. The general format of this value is: FontName, FontPointSize but you can leave it as just "standard" to use the GeoShell default font.

For Example:
Verdana, 12
Tahoma Bold, 14

Style

String that specifies whether or not the display area of the plugin should be inset (sunken appearance) or "flat". The possible values for this setting are:

• inset (Default): The display area will appear to be sunken into the geOBar (as on your Explorer system tray).
• standard: The date/time will just be written on the normal bar.

DateTime Format

String that specifies the format of the text that will be displayed on the geOBar.

The text that is given in this string will appear in the display with the exception of the following tokens, which will be replaced with the respective values:

Token	Resulting text (example)
%a	Abbreviated weekday name
%A	Full weekday name
%b	Abbreviated month name
%B	Full month name
%c	Date and time representation appropriate for locale
%d	Day of month as decimal number (01 ? 31)
%H	Hour in 24-hour format (00 ? 23)
%I	Hour in 12-hour format (01 ? 12)
%j	Day of year as decimal number (001 ? 366)
%m	Month as decimal number (01 ? 12)
%M	Minute as decimal number (00 ? 59)
%p	Current locale?s A.M./P.M. indicator for 12-hour clock
%S	Second as decimal number (00 ? 59)
%U	Week of year as decimal number, with Sunday as first day of week (00 ? 53)
%w	Weekday as decimal number (0 ? 6; Sunday is 0)
%W	Week of year as decimal number, with Monday as first day of week (00 ? 53)
%x	Date representation for current locale
%X	Time representation for current locale
%y	Year without century, as decimal number (00 ? 99)
%Y	Year with century, as decimal number
%z, %Z	Time-zone name or abbreviation; no characters if time zone is unknown
%%	Percent sign
%D	System Uptime: Number of uptime days
%R	System Uptime: Total number of uptime hours
%O	System Uptime: Number of uptime hours in the current day (0 - 23)
%N	System Uptime: Total number of uptime minutes
%u	System Uptime: Number of uptime minutes in the current hour (0 - 59)
%s	Swatch Time: Total number of Swatch beats
%3	Swatch Time: Number of Swatch beats, limited to 3 decimals
%2	Swatch Time: Number of Swatch beats, limited to 2 decimals
%1	Swatch Time: Number of Swatch beats, limited to 1 decimal
The # symbol can also be used.	It modifies some of the above values:
%#c	Long date and time representation, appropriate for current locale
%#x	Long date representation, appropriate for current locale
%#d	Remove leading zeros (if any)
%#H	Remove leading zeros (if any)
%#I	Remove leading zeros (if any)
%#j	Remove leading zeros (if any)
%#m	Remove leading zeros (if any)
%#M	Remove leading zeros (if any)
%#S	Remove leading zeros (if any)
%#U	Remove leading zeros (if any)
%#w	Remove leading zeros (if any)
%#W	Remove leading zeros (if any)
%#y	Remove leading zeros (if any)
%#Y	Remove leading zeros (if any)

Example String	Result
%a %m/%d %H:%M	Thu 02/16 13:52
%#I:%M on %#d-%b-%y	1:52 on 16-Feb-06
Uptime: %D days %O hours %u minutes	Uptime: 6 days 14 hours 52 minutes

ToolTip Format

Another format string (as above) specifies the text that will be displayed in the tooltip which appears when the mouse is hovered over the plugin.