Alex, This is interesting, and thanks for digging it up.
Using this plist it appears that I could use [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] addSuiteNamed:@"com.apple.menuextra.clock"] and access this data with the key 'DateFormat'. I'm not sure I want to do this. I expect there is a degree of fragility. Apple could change the domain or the key. But, it's good to be able to consider it. With this I could find out how the user has there clock configured. Although, here I'm not sure I should look for 'a'. Previously I was relying on the template functionality's response to the special token of 'j'. As your examples illustrate, the absence of 'a' could just indicate the preference of no 'period' in the format string. But the uppercase 'H' is a strong enough indicator. Thanks again for your time and thoughts. Sandor > On Jan 4, 2017, at 00:54, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote: > > OK. All that NSLocale stuff seemed like "The right way to do it™" but… > > Let's see if this gets you what you want. > > Read this file: > > ~/Library/Preferences/ > com.apple.menuextra.clock.plist > > And you'll see… > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> > <plist version="1.0"> > <string>EEE h:mm </string> > </plist> > > > Or > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> > <plist version="1.0"> > <string>EEE h:mm a</string> > </plist> > > Or > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> > <plist version="1.0"> > <string>EEE H:mm</string> > </plist> > > The differences here are: > > EEE h:mm – 12 hour clock, no AM/PM shown > EEE h:mm a – 12 hour clock, AM/PM shown > EEE H:mm – 24 hour clock > > Hope that helps. > > - Z _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
