Ah, All is well now. The change to Locale worked. I noticed that to my surprise, I was not running the Standard skin, I was running the seasons skin. I added my radar lines to Seasons and I am good on both issues.
Thanks, Bill-AB6OR On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 12:11:42 PM UTC-7 William Webb wrote: > Thank you for the speedy reply. I will test the locale change shortly. > > Here is the extras section of my skin.conf. > > > > ############################################################################### > > # The following section is for any extra tags that you want to be > available in the templates > [Extras] > > # This radar image would be available as $Extras.radar_img > radar_img = > http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/PACSOUTHWEST_loop.gif > # radar_img = > https://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=RTX&brand=wui&num=18&delay=15&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1.000&noclutter=1&showlabels=1&severe=1 > # This URL will be used as the image hyperlink: > # radar_url = > https://radar.weather.gov/?settings=v1_eyJhZ2VuZGEiOnsiaWQiOm51bGwsImNlbnRlciI6Wy0xMjEuOTE3LDQ1LjY2XSwiem9vbSI6OH0sImJhc2UiOiJzdGFuZGFyZCIsImNvdW50eSI6ZmFsc2UsImN3YSI6ZmFsc2UsInN0YXRlIjpmYWxzZSwibWVudSI6dHJ1ZSwic2hvcnRGdXNlZE9ubHkiOmZhbHNlfQ%3D%3D#/ > radar_url = http://radar.weather.gov/region/pacsouthwest/standard > # If you have a Google Analytics ID, uncomment and edit the next line, > and > # the analytics code will be included in your generated HTML files: > #googleAnalyticsId = UA-12345678-1 > > > ############################################################################### > > The commented lines appeared to "overrun" the e-mail line length. In > the actual file, they are fine. > On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 11:46:45 AM UTC-7 Tom Keffer wrote: > >> 1. Why not just continue to use your old skins? For the most part, skins >> have been upwardly compatible for a long time. In any event, to answer your >> question, we need a little more information. What does your [Extras] >> section look like in skin.conf? >> >> 2. The WeeWX applications work like any other Unix application: the >> date/time formats are set by the environment variable LANG. You didn't say >> what your value is for LANG, but I assume some European locale. To see >> what it is, use the locale command: >> >> *locale* >> >> >> You can override individual categories by using LC_xxx environment >> variables. For example, to use US style dates and times, you could use >> >> *LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 weewxd* >> >> >> The GNU documentation does a pretty good job of describing how this all >> works >> <https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Locale-Environment-Variables.html> >> . >> >> On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 11:27 AM William Webb <billw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have version 4 of Weewx running well after having used version 3 for a >>> very long time. I have two questions. >>> >>> 1. In the standard report, I would like to display weather radar data. >>> I added the URL and GIF information into skin.conf. Radar info was not >>> displayed.. Likely other changes are needed but I don't know what they >>> are. I don't remember doing anything special in version 3, however, its >>> been a while! >>> >>> 2. The date time format default in the standard skin is the European >>> format d/m/y. I would like to use the US format m/d/y globally, all >>> charts, all heading, etc. Is there a way to make this global change? Did I >>> miss something? >>> >>> -- >>> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b1a73cf3-4dac-4302-a920-b6c3ba75b61bn%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b1a73cf3-4dac-4302-a920-b6c3ba75b61bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/4c0368ac-0595-4f32-b7db-0a4aa2decc58n%40googlegroups.com.
