Re: How to dispaly hh:mm:ss in mode line?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 01.02.2008 um 03:22 schrieb Misskiss:

> Now my emacs mode line can display time like "Thu Jan 31 21:19",  
> what if
> I want to display second, too? just like: Thu Jan 31 21:19:23, and it
> also can update per second?


To make the time and date appear in mode-line add to your user init  
file, ~/.emacs:

        (display-time)

The time format is determined by two variables:

        display-time-24hr-format
        display-time-format

The former can be customised to be true or false (t or nil), the  
latter accepts a description as can be investigated from

        man strftime

which also provides nice "localised" versions (I have in GNU Emacs  
``"%a, %d. %b %Y %R"´´ and outside a simple %Ec. You can test the  
look on the command line as in 'date '+<your format>'. There are also  
the customisable variables

        display-time-mode
        display-time-string-forms

of which I am not that sure whether they are needed.

--
Greetings

  Pete

Real Time, adj.:
	Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there and  
then.