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btomi9:
I'm using MC with Windows Server 2012 in core mode, hence no start menu bar where the actual system time is displayed. That would be a nice feature to display current time or date/time (nice to have it customisable) somewhere in Standard view. I know that in theatre view it can be displayed, but I use MC in Standard view.

Do you think you can implement it in MC 23 or any future release?

marko:
You can do this now if you want :)

If you click on the player display bar, one of the options there is "Customise display"... click on that.
Get the expression below in there somewhere...
formatdate(now(),dddd dd MMMM yyyy)  :::  formatdate(now(),HH:mm)

I've attached a clip of mine so you can see what to expect.

You could add seconds there too if you really wanted, but, there's a caveat (isn't there always) as when playback is stopped, the display doesn't update the time in 'real time' so the seconds would just be irritating, sitting there, frozen on the last time the display updated :)

btomi9:
I will give it a try, thank you so much!


--- Quote from: marko on June 01, 2017, 02:36:52 am ---You can do this now if you want :)

If you click on the player display bar, one of the options there is "Customise display"... click on that.
Get the expression below in there somewhere...
formatdate(now(),dddd dd MMMM yyyy)  :::  padnumber(formatdate(now(),hour),2):padnumber(formatdate(now(),minute),2)

I've attached a clip of mine so you can see what to expect.

You could add seconds there too if you really wanted, but, there's a caveat (isn't there always) as when playback is stopped, the display doesn't update the time in 'real time' so the seconds would just be irritating, sitting there, frozen on the last time the display updated :)

--- End quote ---

~OHM~:

--- Quote from: marko on June 01, 2017, 02:36:52 am ---You can do this now if you want :)

If you click on the player display bar, one of the options there is "Customise display"... click on that.
Get the expression below in there somewhere...
formatdate(now(),dddd dd MMMM yyyy)  :::  padnumber(formatdate(now(),hour),2):padnumber(formatdate(now(),minute),2)

I've attached a clip of mine so you can see what to expect.

You could add seconds there too if you really wanted, but, there's a caveat (isn't there always) as when playback is stopped, the display doesn't update the time in 'real time' so the seconds would just be irritating, sitting there, frozen on the last time the display updated :)

--- End quote ---

Sweet....how to get time to say AM-PM

marko:
use "tt"

formatdate(now(),hh:mm tt) = 04:36 PM
formatdate(now(),HH:mm tt) = 16:36 PM

Updated the post above to use these more streamlined formatting strings.

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