The Custom Format Option within each clock allows the user to define a format string for a specific clock. A format string is made up of one or more display elements that represent a piece of information such as the seconds or hour.
For example, "HH:mm would display "18:34" as HH would be replaced by the hour in 2-digit 24-hour format and mm would be replaced by the minute as 2 digits.
The display elements reflect the Regional Options of Windows, if you are using a German version of Windows, then German weekdays and month names will be displayed.
The display elements are grouped as follows:
All the format elements are case sensitive
|
Function |
Element |
| Day (1-7) | d |
| Day (2 digits 01-07) | dd |
| Day name (abbreviated) | ddd |
| Day name (full) | dddd |
| Month (1-12) | M |
| Month (2 digits 01-12) | MM |
| Month name (abbreviated) | MMM |
| Month name (full) | MMMM |
| Year (1 or 2 digits) |
y |
| Year (2 digits) | yy |
| Year (4 digits) | yyyy |
| Week number | w |
| Week number (2 digits 01-52) | ww |
| Day of year | D |
| Day of year (3 digits) | DD |
All the format elements are case sensitive
|
Function |
Element |
| Hour (1-12) | h |
| Hour (01-12) | hh |
| Hour (0-23) | H |
| Hour (00-23) | HH |
| Minute | m |
| Minute (2 digit) | mm |
| Second | s |
| Second (2 digit) | ss |
| A/P (AM/PM Symbol) | t |
| AM/PM | tt |
| Timezone bias (UTC+/-) shows the current bias including DST adjustments | u |
| Timezone bias(GMT+/-) short form Taken from timezone name data and does not show DTS adjustment. Retained for compatibility with earlier versions. |
z |
| Timezone bias(GMT+/-) long form Taken from timezone name data and does not show DTS adjustments. Retained for compatibility with earlier versions. |
zz |
| Standard/Daylight savings name (currently in force in that time zone) | zzz |
| Timezone Standard time name | ZZ |
| Clock Name (As set in Configure Clock) |
N |
Any text that is in a Custom format that is not a format element will be displayed as part of the clock, this can lead to some strange results. You can ensure that any text that needs to be displayed is handled correctly by enclosing it in single quotation marks (‘ ’).
Example:
Say you wanted to display “today is Wednesday” as part of the clock, the result, with and without quotation marks is:
| Format | Display |
| today is MMMM | “Po18ay i44 Wednesday” |
| “’today is ‘MMMM” | “today is Wednesday” |
In the first example, Chronos Clock translates the “t” in “today” as the format element representing “A/P”, the “d” is translated into the day number and the “s” into seconds. In the second example, the portion within single quotes is displayed correctly as entered.
All the format elements are case sensitive
A clock display can be formatted to display over more than one line, by inserting a "|" vertical bar character. This is translated as a Line Break; anything after the vertical bar will be displayed on the next line.
If two similar display elements must be placed together, a hidden separator element "~" (tilde) must be used to separate them and avoid mistranslations. This element is ignored except as a separator. For example, the format "dddd" produces the full weekday name "Thursday", but with a hidden separator, "d~ddd", it produces "10Thu".
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