Re: display-time-string-forms

[B. T. Raven]

Warren Oates wrote:
> In article <mailman.1909.1191999022.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>  Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> wrote:
>
> > I have  
> >
> >   (setq display-time-format "%R %Y-%m-%d")
> >
> > which gives me
> >
> >       08:47 2007-10-10
> >
> > in the mode line.  Please have a look at the documentation to the
> > function:
>
> What steps do you take to get the time to appear in  your modeline? I've 
> messed with this and _never_ been able to get the time to appear in mine.


From menu:
Options
Customize Emacs
Specific options
display TAB

Then setting 2 of these options should put

'(display-time-day-and-date t)
 '(display-time-mode t nil (time))

into your .emacs custom-set-variables section.
There is also the function

 display-time-string-forms

with which I haven't messed.

Btw, this is in version 21.3. Newer versions certainly have the same 
functionality.

Ed