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Because of communicating with people elsewhere, remote work & watch parties, I have my Conky show the time in a few key time zones. And they automatically update when those time zones that have a DST change (mine doesn't). So far, so good.
But I'd like a little more warning about start / end of DST. Like maybe:
- an indicator warning me in advance before a time zone changes (like it did in Europe today). Maybe shown during the 7 days before the change.
- an indicator for a timezone that has just changed. Maybe shown during the 7 days after the change.
I know I could (and will) set up warnings in my personal calendar, but ideally I'd also like Conky to show me somehow. Maybe change text colour? An asterisk or other symbol? Something else?
Is that possible?
Also, it's been so long since I set it up, I've forgotten what little Conky skills I ever had, so please be patient with me ๐
- Linux Mint 22.3 Xfce
- Conky Manager 2.73
Here's my config:
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conky.config = {
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-- Size and Position settings --
alignment = 'top_right',
gap_x = 20,
gap_y = 0,
maximum_width = 1280,
minimum_height = 300,
minimum_width = 680,
-- Text settings --
use_xft = true,
override_utf8_locale = true,
font = 'Roboto:light:size=9',
-- Color Settings --
default_color = 'white',
default_outline_color = 'white',
default_shade_color = 'white',
color1 = '#404040',
color2 = '#e1e3e1',
-- Window Settings --
background = false,
border_width = 1,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_shades = false,
own_window = true,
-- own_window_colour = '#FFFFFF',
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_type = 'Conky',
own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
stippled_borders = 0,
-- โ Graphics settings โ #
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
default_outline_color = black,
-- Others --
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
net_avg_samples = 2,
double_buffer = true,
out_to_console = false,
out_to_stderr = false,
extra_newline = false,
update_interval = 1,
uppercase = false,
use_spacer = 'none',
show_graph_scale = false,
show_graph_range = false
}
conky.text = [[
${alignr}${voffset 10}${color2}${font Squada One:size=40}${time %A}
${alignr}${voffset 0}${color2}${font Squada One:size=40}${time %e %B %Y}
${alignr}${voffset 5}${color2}${font Squada One:size=125}${time %H:%M}${font}
${alignr}${voffset 30}${color2}${font Squada One:size=30}${color2}Beijing (${tztime Asia/Shanghai %Z) %H:%M}
${alignr}${voffset 5}${color2}${font Squada One:size=30}${color2}London (${tztime Europe/London %Z) %H:%M}
${alignr}${voffset 5}${color2}${font Squada One:size=30}${color2}New York (${tztime America/New_York %Z) %H:%M}
${alignr}${voffset 5}${color2}${font Squada One:size=30}${color2}San Francisco (${tztime America/Vancouver %Z) %H:%M}
${alignr}${voffset 25}${color2}${font Squada One:size=30}CPU used: ${cpu cpu0}%
${alignr}${voffset 5}${color2}${font Squada One:size=30}RAM used: ${memperc}%
${alignr}${voffset 5}${color2}${font Squada One:size=30}Swap used: ${swapperc}%
${alignr}${voffset 5}${color2}${font Squada One:size=30}Storage used: ${fs_used_perc /}%
]]
TIL that conky has a
$tztimevariable.Even so I can confidently say that conky alone cannot do this.
However, you can insert the output from scripts, so something like
Switching daylight savings on/off: ${execi 100 /path/to/script}will work.For the script, I believe
zdumpis your friend. Start with something likeThese lines mark "time intervals". More info:
man zdumpYour system should keep the tzdata package up-to-date so there's usually no reason to check it externally.
Thanks, I'll try working on that after sleep, brain no work right now. :)