feat: add date and time customization

[samarulmeu]

Will it be possible (already exists?) a possibility to change date and time display? For example have something like %d.%m.%Y.

Thank you!

[egel]

Hi @samarulmeu, thanks so much for the issue.

TLDR; I can simply answer, yes! 🙂

I am currently working on enhancing the theme to provide more customization options to the theme. I imagine there will be an easy way to customize the desired slot with time to fit your needs.

If you are interested, you may take a look at #30 to see more.

Best

[samarulmeu]

Hi @egel!

Thank you for your help! Waiting for the setting to be available!

Good work!

[egel]

Hey @samarulmeu, this feature should be already available for tests in release/v2-0-0 branch. Feel free to try it out 🙂

[samarulmeu]

Only now I've seen your comment.

I'm using an automated plugin update, but for last days I get an error when trying to update

"tmux-gruvbox" update fail
    | fatal: couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/master

It seems you've renamed the branch. Should I do something?

[egel]

Hi @samarulmeu, and thanks for the feedback. Oh yes, some time ago I decided to migrate from master to main as the primary branch and did not update the master for a while then - therefore recently thought to clean it out. I am sorry for this inconvenience.

I think the simplest way would be to:

• remove the plugin rm -rf ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-gruvbox
• and reinstall it again via tpm key-binding <prefix> + I.

feel free to let me know if this worked for you.

Or if you plan to test the upcoming release branch with time adjustments - but then you may need to manually pull the repo and link it (see dev section).

[samarulmeu]

Thank you, @egel! Everything went smooth in upgrading. I am still waiting for the adjustments to hit the stable branch.

[egel]

Awesome, happy this worked for you @samarulmeu.

And yeah, same! I also want to push this to main! As I am so excited to give those new great things to you all.

Although there are a couple of things that still need to be considered e.g.: btw that you remind me, what if someone is using old versions, or if someone's terminal does not support 16bit colors - so aka potential migration guide.
generally, I do not expect huge changes (I tried to keep compatibility as much as possible), but there will be slight differences in themes, and people need to know them and feel comfortable :)

Also, feel free to leave feedback if you try out the release/v2.0.0. I am so much open to constructive critique and suggesting better solutions.

[samarulmeu]

I think that a migration guide is also necessary.

Keep up the good woork!

[samarulmeu]

Hi @egel!

I tried to test the 2.0.0 version but I can not set the date as I wanted. This is the setting i put in my tmux.conf

set -g @tmux-gruvbox-right-status-x '%d-%m-%Y'

With this the date is something like Thu 26 Sep 2024

Should I do something more or the setting is not right?

[egel]

Hmm... very interesting. what timezone, OS, and terminal emulator do you use?

generally whatever I tried so far with %d-%m-%Y gives me the same results format following DD-MM-YYYY both for macOS & linux Ubuntu (checked with alacritty & iTerm).

also tested successfully with different using date with different timezone & separators like e.g. .

set -g @tmux-gruvbox-right-status-x '#(TZ="America/Chicago" date +%d.%m.%Y)'

if this is also not working, try with double %%, as this could be related to interpolation with displaying different timezones (source).

set -g @tmux-gruvbox-right-status-x '#(date +%%d.%%m.%%Y)'

Of course, the timezone below is not required, just to demonstrate purpose.

set -g @tmux-gruvbox-right-status-x '#(TZ="America/Chicago" date +%%d.%%m.%%Y)'

[samarulmeu]

Hi @egel!

I am using xterm in Devuan Linux.

In the end it seems to work, but now I get some differences in the color palette.

This is the old status bar

and this one is with v2

Did something change or it is still something on my part?

[egel]

yes, therefore I saw the inevitable need & explanation in the migration guide before the official release. ;)

in v2 will support a 16-bit color palette to get a richer color experience, therefore the light theme will use 16-bit colors.
if you are interested in using only 256 color palettes feel free to set the theme to light256.

[samarulmeu]

Thank you for your explanation. All of this should be added to the migration guide.

Let's see how it goes! I will be back with feedback after the release.

[egel]

done, closing after merging release/v2.0.0

[samarulmeu]

@egel Hello!

I am trying to display the date in local format but with no success.

Here is my code

#set -g @tmux-gruvbox-right-status-x '#(LC_TIME="ro_RO.UTF-8" date +"%A, %e %B %Y")'

I tried even this:

set -g @tmux-gruvbox-right-status-x '#(export LC_ALL="ro_RO.UTF-8" date +"%A, %e %B %Y")'

Thank you!

[egel]

Hi @samarulmeu!

Sorry to hear that it doesn't work out of the box. I had some problems with simulating your Devuan Linux (xterm) config on my silicon mac - it just doesn't work...
Currently, I am lacking a free/unused amd64 CPU, in order to simulate it.

Have you maybe tried with double % as I mentioned in README section for date? Someone already mentioned this to me once, some systems require this trick, therefore I put this info there.
Try maybe with something like the below - although must mention I have no idea without a test environment if this would even work:

set -g @tmux-gruvbox-right-status-x '#(date +"%%A, %%e %%B %%Y")'

[samarulmeu]

Hi @egel!

Thank you for your answer. Indeed using the double % worked and now I have localized date. Maybe you should add this in the configuration information.

All the best!