Show default (UTC) time as well as IST in tmux statusbar

[santosh]

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[himanshu007-creator]

i would like to work . Please guide me further

[santosh]

@himanshu007-creator If you happen to use tmux, I maintain a config file at https://github.com/santosh/.dotfiles/blob/master/.tmux.conf.

Right now, at the low right, the time shown is in local time (configured while installing OS). This used to work fine in my local install.

But nowadays most of the time in tmux is in the cloud. I could configure my cloud instance to use IST, but that's not best practice and would lead to confusion.

For this task you could research on tmux status bar customization. And for the getting the text to the statusbar, I hope you could use some Bash or Python script.

Hint: If you are using date command to fetch time in IST, you can do TZ=Asia/Kolkata date.

Let me know how it goes.

[himanshu007-creator]

i will try my best to work on it :-)

[himanshu007-creator]

set -g status-right '#(TZ="Asia/Kolkata" date +%%H:%%M:%%S)'
this piece of code will do the trick. I need to paste it Here right?

[santosh]

Yes, you are correct about the file.

Also, make sure that I want both times. Separate them by |. Post a screenshot in the PR so I can see.

Edit: Please note that if I use this config in my local installation (configured at installation as IST), it should show the same time in both. The key point to note is the first time shown will be systems local. The second one will be dynamic. I hope you understand. Let me know if there is any concern.

[himanshu007-creator]

Yes, you are correct about the file.

Also, make sure that I want both times. Separate them by |. Post a screenshot in the PR so I can see.

Edit: Please note that if I use this config in my local installation (configured at installation as IST), it should show the same time in both. The key point to note is the first time shown will be systems local. The second one will be dynamic. I hope you understand. Let me know if there is any concern.

I am clear about your requirement but I am unable to figure it our. What exactly do I need to do now.
What I think is that, I can display one time as costom Time and second time in custom text field.
I would like if you can help me out here.

[santosh]

Well, this is weird.

These commands work fine in bash.

ec2-user at ip-172-31-45-160 in ~ $ date +%H:%M:%S                                                 
11:58:47
ec2-user at ip-172-31-45-160 in ~ $ TZ=Asia/Kolkata date +%H:%M:%S                                 
17:29:05

But this config:

set -g status-right '#(date +%%H:%%M:%%S) | #(TZ="Asia/Kolkata" date +%%H:%%M:%%S)'

Renders the same time:

Is your output any different @himanshu007-creator?

[santosh]

I had to force reload the config. I was trying to exit tmux and start again to load the config which didn't work.

@himanshu007-creator You can go ahead and raise the PR.

[himanshu007-creator]

set -g status-right '#(TZ="Asia/Kolkata" date +%%H:%%M:%%S)'
this piece of code will do the trick. I need to paste it Here right?

With this additional line only right?

[santosh]

While I was researching on the issue, I found this simple theme.

set -g status-bg black
set -g status-fg white
set -g window-status-current-bg white
set -g window-status-current-fg black
set -g window-status-current-attr bold

For the content of the status bar, here are the left and right status bar.

set -g status-left-length 30
set -g status-left '#[fg=green](#S) #(whoami)'
set -g status-right-length 40
set -g status-right "#[fg=white]#S #I:#P #[fg=yellow]:: [%d %b |#[fg=cyan] #(TZ=UTC date -u +%%H:%%M) UTC | #(TZ=Asia/Kolkata date +%%H:%%M) IST]"

For now, you can put the above configs and go ahead.