How to output lowercase strings in AwesomeWM rc.lu

问题:

I'm using AwesomeWM vicious datewidget. I'm trying to output the date and time in wibox, in my rc.lua, with this format Feb 17, 12:10 AM (%b %d, %l:%M:%p) but I want the AM(%p) to be lowercase.

I've tried: vicious.register(datewidget, vicious.widgets.date, "<span font-family='terminus' color='#999999'>%b %d, %l:%M:</span> <span variant='smallcaps'%p</span>", 1) but the variant attribute doesn't seem to work.

Is there another way to do this?

my full rc.lua

回答1:

You can use string library's lower() call.

os.date( "%b, %I:%M " )..string.lower( os.date("%p") )

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Edit

Though it is not mentioned in Lua PiL; the strftime also has %P to format as lowercase am or pm.

The string can be:

os.date( "%b, %I:%M %P" )

Codepad example.