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Date & Time

Displays a clock and date information in the status bar.

Configuration Options

OptionDefaultDescriptionExample
dateTime.showOnStartuptrueShow date & time on startup.
dateTime.use24HourClocktrueUse a 24 hour clock.18:43
dateTime.showAMPMfalseShow AM/PM.7:43 PM
dateTime.showDayOfWeekfalseShow the day of the week.Fri 1 Jul
dateTime.showDayOfMonthfalseShow the day of the month.Fri 1 Jul
dateTime.showMonthfalseShow the month.Fri 1 Jul
dateTime.showHourstrueShow hours.18:43
dateTime.showMinutestrueShow minutes.18:43
dateTime.showSecondsfalseShow seconds.18:43:12
dateTime.padDaysfalsePad the day of the month with a leading 0.Fri 01 Jul
dateTime.padHourstruePad hours with a leading 0.09:43
dateTime.padMinutestruePad minutes with a leading 0.18:03
dateTime.padSecondstruePad seconds with a leading 0.18:43:04
dateTime.localenullDate & time locale.es-us
dateTime.timeZonenullTime zone.Europe/Paris
dateTime.flashTimeSeparatorsfalseFlash the time separators.
dateTime.timeSeparator:Time separator character.
dateTime.timeSeparatorOffFlashing time separator character.
dateTime.customFormatnullUse a custom date & time format.
dateTime.clipboardFormatnullUse a custom date & time format when copying.
dateTime.fractionalPrecisionnullUpdate interval divisor for fractional seconds.
dateTime.statusBarAlignmentrightStatus bar alignment, left or right.left
dateTime.statusBarPrioritynullStatus bar priority. Higher means more to the left.10
dateTime.displayPrefixnullPrepend a string to the displayed time.Time:
dateTime.displaySuffixnullAppend a string to the displayed time..

Example usage

// 28 Feb 18:47"dateTime.showDayOfMonth": true,"dateTime.showMonth": true// 9:30 AM"dateTime.use24HourClock": false,"dateTime.showAMPM": true

Custom date & time format

Custom date & time formats can be specified using the following format:

TokenOutput
MonthM1 2 ... 11 12
Mo1st 2nd ... 11th 12th
MM01 02 ... 11 12
MMMJan Feb ... Nov Dec
MMMMJanuary February ... November December
QuarterQ1 2 3 4
Qo1st 2nd 3rd 4th
Day of MonthD1 2 ... 30 31
Do1st 2nd ... 30th 31st
DD01 02 ... 30 31
Day of YearDDD1 2 ... 364 365
DDDo1st 2nd ... 364th 365th
DDDD001 002 ... 364 365
Day of Weekd0 1 ... 5 6
do0th 1st ... 5th 6th
ddSu Mo ... Fr Sa
dddSun Mon ... Fri Sat
ddddSunday Monday ... Friday Saturday
Day of Week (Locale)e0 1 ... 5 6
eo0th 1st ... 5th 6th
Day of Week (ISO)E1 2 ... 6 7
Eo1st 2nd ... 6th 7th
Week of Yearw1 2 ... 52 53
wo1st 2nd ... 52nd 53rd
ww01 02 ... 52 53
Week of Year (ISO)W1 2 ... 52 53
Wo1st 2nd ... 52nd 53rd
WW01 02 ... 52 53
YearYY70 71 ... 29 30
YYYY1970 1971 ... 2029 2030
Week Yeargg70 71 ... 29 30
gggg1970 1971 ... 2029 2030
Week Year (ISO)GG70 71 ... 29 30
GGGG1970 1971 ... 2029 2030
AM/PMAAM PM
aam pm
HourH0 1 ... 22 23
HH00 01 ... 22 23
h1 2 ... 11 12
hh01 02 ... 11 12
Minutem0 1 ... 58 59
mm00 01 ... 58 59
Seconds0 1 ... 58 59
ss00 01 ... 58 59
Fractional SecondS0 1 ... 8 9
SS00 01 ... 98 99
SSS000 001 ... 998 999
Unix TimestampX1360013296
Unix Millisecond Timestampx1360013296123
Abbreviated TimezonezEST
Unabbreviated TimezonezzzEastern Standard Time
Escape[...]Text between [ and ] is escaped

Example usage

// Friday, January the 1st, 2016"dateTime.customFormat": "dddd, MMMM [the] Do, YYYY"// 2016-01-01 10:12:03"dateTime.customFormat": "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss"

Date & time locale

The locale can be one of:

  • af - Afrikaans
  • am - Amharic
  • ar-dz - Arabic (Algeria)
  • ar-iq - Arabic (Iraq)
  • ar-kw - Arabic (Kuwait)
  • ar-ly - Arabic (Lybia)
  • ar-ma - Arabic (Morocco)
  • ar-sa - Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
  • ar-tn - Arabic (Tunisia)
  • ar - Arabic
  • az - Azerbaijani
  • be - Belarusian
  • bg - Bulgarian
  • bi - Bislama
  • bm - Bambara
  • bn-bd - Bengali (Bangladesh)
  • bn - Bengali
  • bo - Tibetan
  • br - Breton
  • bs - Bosnian
  • ca - Catalan
  • cs - Czech
  • cv - Chuvash
  • cy - Welsh
  • da - Danish
  • de-at - German (Austria)
  • de-ch - German (Switzerland)
  • de - German
  • dv - Maldivian
  • el - Greek
  • en-au - English (Australia)
  • en-ca - English (Canada)
  • en-gb - English (United Kingdom)
  • en-ie - English (Ireland)
  • en-il - English (Israel)
  • en-in - English (India)
  • en-nz - English (New Zealand)
  • en-sg - English (Singapore)
  • en-tt - English (Trinidad & Tobago)
  • en - English
  • eo - Esperanto
  • es-do - Spanish (Dominican Republic)
  • es-mx - Spanish (Mexico)
  • es-PR - Spanish (Puerto Rico)
  • es-us - Spanish (United States)
  • es - Spanish
  • et - Estonian
  • eu - Basque
  • fa - Persian
  • fi - Finnish
  • fo - Faroese
  • fr-ca - French (Canada)
  • fr-ch - French (Switzerland)
  • fr - French
  • fy - Frisian
  • ga - Irish or Irish Gaelic
  • gd - Scottish Gaelic
  • gl - Galician
  • gom-latn - Konkani Latin script
  • gu - Gujarati
  • he - Hebrew
  • hi - Hindi
  • hr - Croatian
  • ht - Haitian Creole (Haiti)
  • hu - Hungarian
  • hy-am - Armenian
  • id - Indonesian
  • is - Icelandic
  • it-ch - Italian (Switzerland)
  • it - Italian
  • ja - Japanese
  • jv - Javanese
  • ka - Georgian
  • kk - Kazakh
  • km - Cambodian
  • kn - Kannada
  • ko - Korean
  • ku - Kurdish
  • ky - Kyrgyz
  • lb - Luxembourgish
  • lo - Lao
  • lt - Lithuanian
  • lv - Latvian
  • me - Montenegrin
  • mi - Maori
  • mk - Macedonian
  • ml - Malayalam
  • mn - Mongolian
  • mr - Marathi
  • ms-my - Malay
  • ms - Malay
  • mt - Maltese (Malta)
  • my - Burmese
  • nb - Norwegian Bokmål
  • ne - Nepalese
  • nl-be - Dutch (Belgium)
  • nl - Dutch
  • nn - Nynorsk
  • oc-lnc - Occitan, lengadocian dialecte
  • pa-in - Punjabi (India)
  • pl - Polish
  • pt-br - Portuguese (Brazil)
  • pt - Portuguese
  • rn - Kirundi
  • ro - Romanian
  • ru - Russian
  • rw - Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
  • sd - Sindhi
  • se - Northern Sami
  • si - Sinhalese
  • sk - Slovak
  • sl - Slovenian
  • sq - Albanian
  • sr-cyrl - Serbian Cyrillic
  • sr - Serbian
  • ss - siSwati
  • sv-fi - Finland Swedish
  • sv - Swedish
  • sw - Swahili
  • ta - Tamil
  • te - Telugu
  • tet - Tetun Dili (East Timor)
  • tg - Tajik
  • th - Thai
  • tk - Turkmen
  • tl-ph - Tagalog (Philippines)
  • tlh - Klingon
  • tr - Turkish
  • tzl - Talossan
  • tzm-latn - Central Atlas Tamazight Latin
  • tzm - Central Atlas Tamazight
  • ug-cn - Uyghur (China)
  • uk - Ukrainian
  • ur - Urdu
  • uz-latn - Uzbek Latin
  • uz - Uzbek
  • vi - Vietnamese
  • yo - Yoruba Nigeria
  • zh-cn - Chinese (China)
  • zh-hk - Chinese (Hong Kong)
  • zh-tw - Chinese (Taiwan)
  • zh - Chinese

Time Zones

The time zone can be one of:

  • Africa/Abidjan
  • Africa/Accra
  • Africa/Addis_Ababa
  • Africa/Algiers
  • Africa/Asmera
  • Africa/Bamako
  • Africa/Bangui
  • Africa/Banjul
  • Africa/Bissau
  • Africa/Blantyre
  • Africa/Brazzaville
  • Africa/Bujumbura
  • Africa/Cairo
  • Africa/Casablanca
  • Africa/Ceuta
  • Africa/Conakry
  • Africa/Dakar
  • Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
  • Africa/Djibouti
  • Africa/Douala
  • Africa/El_Aaiun
  • Africa/Freetown
  • Africa/Gaborone
  • Africa/Harare
  • Africa/Johannesburg
  • Africa/Juba
  • Africa/Kampala
  • Africa/Khartoum
  • Africa/Kigali
  • Africa/Kinshasa
  • Africa/Lagos
  • Africa/Libreville
  • Africa/Lome
  • Africa/Luanda
  • Africa/Lubumbashi
  • Africa/Lusaka
  • Africa/Malabo
  • Africa/Maputo
  • Africa/Maseru
  • Africa/Mbabane
  • Africa/Mogadishu
  • Africa/Monrovia
  • Africa/Nairobi
  • Africa/Ndjamena
  • Africa/Niamey
  • Africa/Nouakchott
  • Africa/Ouagadougou
  • Africa/Porto-Novo
  • Africa/Sao_Tome
  • Africa/Tripoli
  • Africa/Tunis
  • Africa/Windhoek
  • America/Adak
  • America/Anchorage
  • America/Anguilla
  • America/Antigua
  • America/Araguaina
  • America/Argentina/La_Rioja
  • America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos
  • America/Argentina/Salta
  • America/Argentina/San_Juan
  • America/Argentina/San_Luis
  • America/Argentina/Tucuman
  • America/Argentina/Ushuaia
  • America/Aruba
  • America/Asuncion
  • America/Bahia
  • America/Bahia_Banderas
  • America/Barbados
  • America/Belem
  • America/Belize
  • America/Blanc-Sablon
  • America/Boa_Vista
  • America/Bogota
  • America/Boise
  • America/Buenos_Aires
  • America/Cambridge_Bay
  • America/Campo_Grande
  • America/Cancun
  • America/Caracas
  • America/Catamarca
  • America/Cayenne
  • America/Cayman
  • America/Chicago
  • America/Chihuahua
  • America/Coral_Harbour
  • America/Cordoba
  • America/Costa_Rica
  • America/Creston
  • America/Cuiaba
  • America/Curacao
  • America/Danmarkshavn
  • America/Dawson
  • America/Dawson_Creek
  • America/Denver
  • America/Detroit
  • America/Dominica
  • America/Edmonton
  • America/Eirunepe
  • America/El_Salvador
  • America/Fort_Nelson
  • America/Fortaleza
  • America/Glace_Bay
  • America/Godthab
  • America/Goose_Bay
  • America/Grand_Turk
  • America/Grenada
  • America/Guadeloupe
  • America/Guatemala
  • America/Guayaquil
  • America/Guyana
  • America/Halifax
  • America/Havana
  • America/Hermosillo
  • America/Indiana/Knox
  • America/Indiana/Marengo
  • America/Indiana/Petersburg
  • America/Indiana/Tell_City
  • America/Indiana/Vevay
  • America/Indiana/Vincennes
  • America/Indiana/Winamac
  • America/Indianapolis
  • America/Inuvik
  • America/Iqaluit
  • America/Jamaica
  • America/Jujuy
  • America/Juneau
  • America/Kentucky/Monticello
  • America/Kralendijk
  • America/La_Paz
  • America/Lima
  • America/Los_Angeles
  • America/Louisville
  • America/Lower_Princes
  • America/Maceio
  • America/Managua
  • America/Manaus
  • America/Marigot
  • America/Martinique
  • America/Matamoros
  • America/Mazatlan
  • America/Mendoza
  • America/Menominee
  • America/Merida
  • America/Metlakatla
  • America/Mexico_City
  • America/Miquelon
  • America/Moncton
  • America/Monterrey
  • America/Montevideo
  • America/Montreal
  • America/Montserrat
  • America/Nassau
  • America/New_York
  • America/Nipigon
  • America/Nome
  • America/Noronha
  • America/North_Dakota/Beulah
  • America/North_Dakota/Center
  • America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
  • America/Ojinaga
  • America/Panama
  • America/Pangnirtung
  • America/Paramaribo
  • America/Phoenix
  • America/Port-au-Prince
  • America/Port_of_Spain
  • America/Porto_Velho
  • America/Puerto_Rico
  • America/Punta_Arenas
  • America/Rainy_River
  • America/Rankin_Inlet
  • America/Recife
  • America/Regina
  • America/Resolute
  • America/Rio_Branco
  • America/Santa_Isabel
  • America/Santarem
  • America/Santiago
  • America/Santo_Domingo
  • America/Sao_Paulo
  • America/Scoresbysund
  • America/Sitka
  • America/St_Barthelemy
  • America/St_Johns
  • America/St_Kitts
  • America/St_Lucia
  • America/St_Thomas
  • America/St_Vincent
  • America/Swift_Current
  • America/Tegucigalpa
  • America/Thule
  • America/Thunder_Bay
  • America/Tijuana
  • America/Toronto
  • America/Tortola
  • America/Vancouver
  • America/Whitehorse
  • America/Winnipeg
  • America/Yakutat
  • America/Yellowknife
  • Antarctica/Casey
  • Antarctica/Davis
  • Antarctica/DumontDUrville
  • Antarctica/Macquarie
  • Antarctica/Mawson
  • Antarctica/McMurdo
  • Antarctica/Palmer
  • Antarctica/Rothera
  • Antarctica/Syowa
  • Antarctica/Troll
  • Antarctica/Vostok
  • Arctic/Longyearbyen
  • Asia/Aden
  • Asia/Almaty
  • Asia/Amman
  • Asia/Anadyr
  • Asia/Aqtau
  • Asia/Aqtobe
  • Asia/Ashgabat
  • Asia/Atyrau
  • Asia/Baghdad
  • Asia/Bahrain
  • Asia/Baku
  • Asia/Bangkok
  • Asia/Barnaul
  • Asia/Beirut
  • Asia/Bishkek
  • Asia/Brunei
  • Asia/Calcutta
  • Asia/Chita
  • Asia/Choibalsan
  • Asia/Colombo
  • Asia/Damascus
  • Asia/Dhaka
  • Asia/Dili
  • Asia/Dubai
  • Asia/Dushanbe
  • Asia/Famagusta
  • Asia/Gaza
  • Asia/Hebron
  • Asia/Hong_Kong
  • Asia/Hovd
  • Asia/Irkutsk
  • Asia/Jakarta
  • Asia/Jayapura
  • Asia/Jerusalem
  • Asia/Kabul
  • Asia/Kamchatka
  • Asia/Karachi
  • Asia/Katmandu
  • Asia/Khandyga
  • Asia/Krasnoyarsk
  • Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
  • Asia/Kuching
  • Asia/Kuwait
  • Asia/Macau
  • Asia/Magadan
  • Asia/Makassar
  • Asia/Manila
  • Asia/Muscat
  • Asia/Nicosia
  • Asia/Novokuznetsk
  • Asia/Novosibirsk
  • Asia/Omsk
  • Asia/Oral
  • Asia/Phnom_Penh
  • Asia/Pontianak
  • Asia/Pyongyang
  • Asia/Qatar
  • Asia/Qostanay
  • Asia/Qyzylorda
  • Asia/Rangoon
  • Asia/Riyadh
  • Asia/Saigon
  • Asia/Sakhalin
  • Asia/Samarkand
  • Asia/Seoul
  • Asia/Shanghai
  • Asia/Singapore
  • Asia/Srednekolymsk
  • Asia/Taipei
  • Asia/Tashkent
  • Asia/Tbilisi
  • Asia/Tehran
  • Asia/Thimphu
  • Asia/Tokyo
  • Asia/Tomsk
  • Asia/Ulaanbaatar
  • Asia/Urumqi
  • Asia/Ust-Nera
  • Asia/Vientiane
  • Asia/Vladivostok
  • Asia/Yakutsk
  • Asia/Yekaterinburg
  • Asia/Yerevan
  • Atlantic/Azores
  • Atlantic/Bermuda
  • Atlantic/Canary
  • Atlantic/Cape_Verde
  • Atlantic/Faeroe
  • Atlantic/Madeira
  • Atlantic/Reykjavik
  • Atlantic/South_Georgia
  • Atlantic/St_Helena
  • Atlantic/Stanley
  • Australia/Adelaide
  • Australia/Brisbane
  • Australia/Broken_Hill
  • Australia/Currie
  • Australia/Darwin
  • Australia/Eucla
  • Australia/Hobart
  • Australia/Lindeman
  • Australia/Lord_Howe
  • Australia/Melbourne
  • Australia/Perth
  • Australia/Sydney
  • Europe/Amsterdam
  • Europe/Andorra
  • Europe/Astrakhan
  • Europe/Athens
  • Europe/Belgrade
  • Europe/Berlin
  • Europe/Bratislava
  • Europe/Brussels
  • Europe/Bucharest
  • Europe/Budapest
  • Europe/Busingen
  • Europe/Chisinau
  • Europe/Copenhagen
  • Europe/Dublin
  • Europe/Gibraltar
  • Europe/Guernsey
  • Europe/Helsinki
  • Europe/Isle_of_Man
  • Europe/Istanbul
  • Europe/Jersey
  • Europe/Kaliningrad
  • Europe/Kiev
  • Europe/Kirov
  • Europe/Lisbon
  • Europe/Ljubljana
  • Europe/London
  • Europe/Luxembourg
  • Europe/Madrid
  • Europe/Malta
  • Europe/Mariehamn
  • Europe/Minsk
  • Europe/Monaco
  • Europe/Moscow
  • Europe/Oslo
  • Europe/Paris
  • Europe/Podgorica
  • Europe/Prague
  • Europe/Riga
  • Europe/Rome
  • Europe/Samara
  • Europe/San_Marino
  • Europe/Sarajevo
  • Europe/Saratov
  • Europe/Simferopol
  • Europe/Skopje
  • Europe/Sofia
  • Europe/Stockholm
  • Europe/Tallinn
  • Europe/Tirane
  • Europe/Ulyanovsk
  • Europe/Uzhgorod
  • Europe/Vaduz
  • Europe/Vatican
  • Europe/Vienna
  • Europe/Vilnius
  • Europe/Volgograd
  • Europe/Warsaw
  • Europe/Zagreb
  • Europe/Zaporozhye
  • Europe/Zurich
  • Indian/Antananarivo
  • Indian/Chagos
  • Indian/Christmas
  • Indian/Cocos
  • Indian/Comoro
  • Indian/Kerguelen
  • Indian/Mahe
  • Indian/Maldives
  • Indian/Mauritius
  • Indian/Mayotte
  • Indian/Reunion
  • Pacific/Apia
  • Pacific/Auckland
  • Pacific/Bougainville
  • Pacific/Chatham
  • Pacific/Easter
  • Pacific/Efate
  • Pacific/Enderbury
  • Pacific/Fakaofo
  • Pacific/Fiji
  • Pacific/Funafuti
  • Pacific/Galapagos
  • Pacific/Gambier
  • Pacific/Guadalcanal
  • Pacific/Guam
  • Pacific/Honolulu
  • Pacific/Johnston
  • Pacific/Kiritimati
  • Pacific/Kosrae
  • Pacific/Kwajalein
  • Pacific/Majuro
  • Pacific/Marquesas
  • Pacific/Midway
  • Pacific/Nauru
  • Pacific/Niue
  • Pacific/Norfolk
  • Pacific/Noumea
  • Pacific/Pago_Pago
  • Pacific/Palau
  • Pacific/Pitcairn
  • Pacific/Ponape
  • Pacific/Port_Moresby
  • Pacific/Rarotonga
  • Pacific/Saipan
  • Pacific/Tahiti
  • Pacific/Tarawa
  • Pacific/Tongatapu
  • Pacific/Truk
  • Pacific/Wake
  • Pacific/Wallis

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