Dear all The following relevant thing has been brought to my attention (by a Conky developer):
$ man strftime | grep Convert ^ Convert alphabetic characters in result string to uppercase. i.e., strftime, which is, I believe, a C function included in the C 'time' library, has an option (which one can use in Conky, actually) to convert output to all uppercase - thus achieving what I desired. 'Date' could implement something similar. Yours Nicholas On 03/04/2019 04:08, Eric Blake wrote: > On 4/2/19 3:22 PM, Nicholas Joll wrote: > >> I have two suggestions. (1) Amend the manual such that it says something >> like the following. >> >> %P like %p, but lower case (or uppercase if uppercase is all >> that the locale provides) >> >> (2) Add (and document) a new option that works thusly: >> >> %PP locale's implementation of AM/PM (or blank if the locale has >> no such implementation), forced into uppercase > We can't spell it %PP (that would be parsed as "%P" "P"), but we could > take a leaf from %:z (and even %:::z) if we wanted to use : as a flag to > force particular capitalizations. Of course, even toupper()/tolower() > are locale-dependent, so it's still hard to say what could really be > forced if we added particular variants for overriding a locale's > preferred case. >
