Andrew, The hyphens and the spaces behaved the same. I added the time zone name to the header and the graphs today and I am happy with the display. Gene.
On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 10:11:52 PM UTC-7, Andrew Milner wrote: > > I assume you changed the format to something else since the page you > linked to does not appear to have the literal hyphens in the date/time > strings > > > > On Friday, 20 July 2018 08:05:57 UTC+3, Andrew Milner wrote: >> >> Gene - no offence taken - I've a got a thick hide for a skin … glad >> you've got it sorted anyways. However, now I am also curious - we know that >> using quotes solved the problem - but out of curiosity does spaces instead >> of hyphens also solve it?? >> >> On Friday, 20 July 2018 08:00:10 UTC+3, Gene Matthews wrote: >>> >>> Didn't mean to imply anything. No offense intended. There may be others >>> reading this thread that need to know. I ended up putting quotes around the >>> formatting strings.Thanks for your help. >>> >>> On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 9:42:26 PM UTC-7, Andrew Milner wrote: >>>> >>>> I know that - but it's the only difference between what you typed and >>>> what I have had in my skin files for ages!! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, 20 July 2018 07:40:07 UTC+3, Gene Matthews wrote: >>>>> >>>>> The hyphens are a literals like the space and print between the >>>>> formatted date elements. Thanks for the response. >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 9:32:45 PM UTC-7, Andrew Milner wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Works fine on 8.0 Jessie with RPi3, but without the hyphens - I have >>>>>> a space where you had a hyphen >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Friday, 20 July 2018 06:54:06 UTC+3, gjr80 wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Sorry, left out the quotes: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> current = "%d-%b-%Y %H%M" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Gary >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Friday, 20 July 2018 13:51:11 UTC+10, gjr80 wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Interesting, no problems on a Debian 9.5 VM, just waiting to see >>>>>>>> what my Stretch RPi does. Out of interest, did you try enclosing the >>>>>>>> format >>>>>>>> string in quotes eg: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> current = %d-%b-%Y %H%M >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Gary >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Friday, 20 July 2018 13:39:57 UTC+10, Gene Matthews wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> When I change the date time format in Standard skin.conf >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> from: current = %x %X >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> to: current = %d-%b-%Y %H%M >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> or any other legal formatting string >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> CheetahGenerator throws a Type error for each report >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: cheetahgenerator: Generate >>>>>>>>> failed with exception '<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>' >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: cheetahgenerator: **** >>>>>>>>> Ignoring template /etc/weewx/skins/Standard/month.html.tmpl >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: cheetahgenerator: **** >>>>>>>>> Reason: must be string, not list >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** Traceback (most >>>>>>>>> recent call last): >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** File >>>>>>>>> "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/cheetahgenerator.py", line 315, in generate >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** print >> _file, >>>>>>>>> text >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** File >>>>>>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 1005, in >>>>>>>>> __str__ >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** rc = >>>>>>>>> getattr(self, mainMethName)() >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** File >>>>>>>>> "_etc_weewx_skins_Standard_month_html_tmpl.py", line 841, in respond >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** File >>>>>>>>> "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/cheetahgenerator.py", line 566, in filter >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** filtered = >>>>>>>>> self.filter(str(val)) >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** File >>>>>>>>> "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/units.py", line 907, in __str__ >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** return >>>>>>>>> self.toString() >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** File >>>>>>>>> "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/units.py", line 902, in toString >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** >>>>>>>>> localize=localize) >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** File >>>>>>>>> "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/units.py", line 628, in toString >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** val_str = >>>>>>>>> time.strftime(self.time_format_dict.get(context, "%d-%b-%Y %H:%M"), >>>>>>>>> time.localtime(val_t[0])) >>>>>>>>> Jul 19 20:30:17 bristolwx1 weewx[2985]: **** TypeError: must be >>>>>>>>> string, not list >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Also, changing the date format string >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> from: bottom_label_format = %x %X >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> to: bottom_label_format = %B %d, %Y %H%M >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> causes ImageGenerator to throw the same error. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Changing them back fixes them. I have confirmed the locale as >>>>>>>>> en_US. I also looked at the edited skin.conf and the distributed >>>>>>>>> skin.conf in a hex editor thinking the text editor (nano) was >>>>>>>>> putting in >>>>>>>>> characters, but that is not the case. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This is happening on two raspberry pi's. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Jessie with Weewx 3.7.1 >>>>>>>>> Stretch with Weewx 3.8.0 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This started happening on working systems, possibly after an >>>>>>>>> automatic OS update. I can't help but think I am missing something or >>>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>>> someone else is having the same problem. Help with this is >>>>>>>>> appreciated. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
