Custom time format

[michaelmob]

Date string is formatted to add custom text.
Could we customize the time format? It would allow a 12-hour clock to be possible.

The flag for i3lock would be something like --timestr '%l:%H:%S %p'

Would you accept a pull request for this? If so, what should the flag be?

[AUTplayed]

I think a flag that passes all arguments after it directly to the i3lock command would be beneficial (also reworking the command parsing should be done sometime soon as well)

just my opinion, maybe someone else has a better idea

[michaelmob]

That would be even better.
How does two hyphens sound for that?

betterlockscreen --lock -- --timestr '%l:%H:%S %p'

May look sort of convoluted.

[michaelmob]

Looking at the way variables are currently handled, I definitely agree that the command parsing rework is necessary before something like this should be added.

Considering betterlockscreen uses tools that utilize GNU programs, getopt (as opposed to getopts which cannot do long flags) would probably be one of the better options.

[michaelmob]

Possible with #79