[884] in athena10
Re: [ATN-4] More greeter candidates; vote today please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Jan 22 11:02:22 2009
Cc: Athena 10 <athena10@MIT.EDU>
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:57:51 -0500
I too am disappointed, but that is what gdm gives us.
The clock is created by putting the text "%c" in one of the widgets.
Although this looks tantalizingly like a strftime(3) format string,
it's not. It's the current locale's default representation of the
full date and time, and that's all that is made available to gdm.
It's identical to what shows up in the panel.
I have not yet UTSL'd to confirm this, and if anyone comes up with a
way (that does not involve reubilding gdm or hacking the en_US locale)
to get a different date/time representation, I'll consider it.
-Jon
On Jan 22, 2009, at 10:45 AM, John Hawkinson wrote:
> It's kind of a bummer that none of these have a clock with seconds.
> I think a lot of people found that extremely useful in older versions
> of Athena. Can it come back, please?
>
> --jhawk
