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hijack61
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Change clock time

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Hello everybody
i am new here and want to ask if it is possible to change the time on the clock. I would need another time as the system time. thank you
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jsmorley
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Re: Change clock time

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hijack61 wrote: January 20th, 2019, 3:17 pm Hello everybody
i am new here and want to ask if it is possible to change the time on the clock. I would need another time as the system time. thank you
I'm almost certain that I don't understand your question, but that's up to Windows...

https://www.isunshare.com/windows-10/2-ways-to-change-date-and-time-on-windows-10.html
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Re: Change clock time

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jsmorley wrote: January 20th, 2019, 3:23 pm I'm almost certain that I don't understand your question,
Nor me, but I think he wants to show on a clock not the current time, but for example one hour ahead, or something like this. Am I right hijack61? Because if I am, this is possible, just confirm us what would you like.
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Re: Change clock time

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balala wrote: January 20th, 2019, 3:55 pm Nor me, but I think he wants to show on a clock not the current time, but for example one hour ahead, or something like this. Am I right hijack61? Because if I am, this is possible, just confirm us what would you like.
YESSS, EXACTLY. Thank you to both for answering. I see my PC time on the taskbar but for VPN reasons I had to change it to another time zome. As I do not use wrist watch, that's my only way to see the actually time, and sometimes I dont rember and I am one hour late, LOL. Windows 10 allows me a second time which I did, but you have to hover over the time to see it. So I would need a second clock on the desktop (big if possible) which shows me the other timezone
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Re: Change clock time

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hijack61 wrote: January 20th, 2019, 5:20 pm YESSS, EXACTLY.
Here is a solution. The [MeasureCurrentTime] measure returns the current time, set on your computer. In the [Variables] section you have to set the number of hours you want to go ahead or back (obviously positive values will make the second measure to go ahead, while negative ones will make it to go back). Finally [MeasureAhead] will return the "offset" time:

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[Variables]
Offset=1

[MeasureCurrentTime]
Measure=Time
Format=locale-time

[MeasureAhead]
Measure=Time
Format=locale-time
TimeStamp=([MeasureCurrentTime:TimeStamp]+#Offset#*3600)
DynamicVariables=1
This solution uses a trick described here and in the next post of jsmorley.
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Re: Change clock time

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Balala's solution is perfectly fine, and reasonably simple, if you are sure that the time difference you are comparing is always going to be one hour.

However, to really get the correct time for a different time zone, you need to base it on a "location", not a specific time zone. This is due to the fact that Daylight Saving time can be or not be in effect at different places in any given time zone. If you simply add or subtract some fixed number of hours to get to a specific time zone, your clock will be WRONG for 1/2 the year in many if not most locations. Now, you are welcome to manually change the number of hours twice a year, but... ick.

What I did was boil down ecectic-tech's "World Time" skin that he included in his "illustra" suite of skins, to make it as simple as possible for this particular need.

https://www.deviantart.com/eclectic-tech/art/Illustra-770620313

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1

[Variables]
; You have to set location here.
; Go to https://time.yandex.com/
; Add a city you like.
; Move mouse over that city. Click the gear icon.
; Click "Informer".
; Copy the number after "geoid=" for the location, and replace the Location variable.

Location=200
;Los Angeles

[MeasureLocationName]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
UpdateRate=600
Url="http://time.yandex.com/sync.json?lang=en&geo=#Location#"
RegExp="(?siU).*"name":"(.*)".*"offset":(.*),"offsetString":"(.*)""
StringIndex=1
DecodeCharacterReference=1
DynamicVariables=1
FinishAction=[!ShowMeter MeterDateTime]
 
[MeasureOffset]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=[MeasureLocationName]
StringIndex=2
Substitute="":"0"

[MeasureDate]
Measure=Time
Format=%A, %B %#d, %Y
TimeZone=([MeasureOffset]/3600000)
DaylightSavingTime=0
DynamicVariables=1

[Measure24HrTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%#H:%M:%S
TimeZone=([MeasureOffset]/3600000)
DaylightSavingTime=0
DynamicVariables=1

[Measure12HrTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%#I:%M:%S %p
TimeZone=([MeasureOffset]/3600000)
DaylightSavingTime=0
DynamicVariables=1

[MeterDateTime]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureLocationName
MeasureName2=MeasureDate
MeasureName3=Measure12HrTime
FontSize=30
FontWeight=400
FontColor=255,255,255,255
SolidColor=47,47,47,255
Padding=5,5,5,5
AntiAlias=1
Hidden=1
Text=%1#CRLF#%2#CRLF#%3
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Re: Change clock time

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jsmorley wrote: January 20th, 2019, 5:57 pm

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1

[Variables]
; You have to set location here.
; Go to https://time.yandex.com/
; Add a city you like.
; Move mouse over that city. Click the gear icon.
; Click "Informer".
; Copy the number after "geoid=" for the location, and replace the Location variable.

Location=200
;Los Angeles

[MeasureLocationName]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
UpdateRate=600
Url="http://time.yandex.com/sync.json?lang=en&geo=#Location#"
RegExp="(?siU).*"name":"(.*)".*"offset":(.*),"offsetString":"(.*)""
StringIndex=1
DecodeCharacterReference=1
DynamicVariables=1
FinishAction=[!ShowMeter MeterDateTime]
 
[MeasureOffset]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=[MeasureLocationName]
StringIndex=2
Substitute="":"0"

[MeasureDate]
Measure=Time
Format=%A, %B %#d, %Y
TimeZone=([MeasureOffset]/3600000)
DaylightSavingTime=0
DynamicVariables=1

[Measure24HrTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%#I:%M:%S
TimeZone=([MeasureOffset]/3600000)
DaylightSavingTime=0
DynamicVariables=1

[Measure12HrTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%#H:%M:%S %p
TimeZone=([MeasureOffset]/3600000)
DaylightSavingTime=0
DynamicVariables=1

[MeterDateTime]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureLocationName
MeasureName2=MeasureDate
MeasureName3=Measure12HrTime
FontSize=30
FontWeight=400
FontColor=255,255,255,255
SolidColor=47,47,47,255
Padding=5,5,5,5
AntiAlias=1
Hidden=1
Text=%1#CRLF#%2#CRLF#%3
There is a small mistake in the posted code, please fix it. The format of the hours in the [Measure24HrTime] and [Measure12HrTime] measures are exchanged. You should have to use %#H in [Measure24HrTime] and %#I in [Measure12HrTime]:

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[Measure24HrTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%#H:%M:%S
...

[Measure12HrTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%#I:%M:%S %p
...
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Re: Change clock time

Post by jsmorley »

balala wrote: January 20th, 2019, 6:30 pm There is a small mistake in the posted code, please fix it. The format of the hours in the [Measure24HrTime] and [Measure12HrTime] measures are exchanged. You should have to use %#H in [Measure24HrTime] and %#I in [Measure12HrTime]:

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[Measure24HrTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%#H:%M:%S
...

[Measure12HrTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%#I:%M:%S %p
...
You are right... Sorry. Fixed.
hijack61
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Re: Change clock time

Post by hijack61 »

to jsmorley

thx very much, will try