Time and date formatting - Info

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
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As I’m starting over from scratch again, I was trying to get my time and date formatting how I wanted. Of course, you will have to set up your NTP connections correctly to make it all work.
NTP servers for the US
My .things file:

ntp:ntp:ourhome  [ hostname="0.us.pool.ntp.org", refreshInterval=60, refreshNtp=30 ]

I wanted the date format to be Day-of-the-week, Month, Day and Year and the time to be in 12-hour format with AM/PM indication. Here is the format I used for the .items file:

// Display date as DOW, Full Month name, Day and Date
DateTime Date  "Date [%1$tA, %1$tB  %1$td, %1$tY]"  { channel="ntp:ntp:ourhome:dateTime" } 
// Display Time as 12 hour format with AM/PM
DateTime Time  "Time [%1$tI:%1$tM %1$Tp]" { channel="ntp:ntp:ourhome:dateTime" }

To get it to display on you sitemap screen add this to the .sitemap file:

Frame label="Today" {
        Text item=Date icon="calendar"
        Text item=Time  icon="time"
}

I found this site that explains what the code is inside the [ ] brackets:
Class formatter for Java

I have no knowledge of Java programming but this site did help figure out how to get the date and time formatted how I wanted.

This is my one contribution to the OH community.

John

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Hopefully not the last one.

Thanks for posting!

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Thanks Rick

The next project is to get the OpenWeatherMap loaded and working so I can check the local weather around our home. I may need some help on this one!