Formatting for UTC Date Using Sunclock 3.56 ???

NotReal · 2018-09-23T20:17:24+00:00

I am in need of some assistance in configuring the time display on the .rcfile, I have managed to configure the local time (EDT) and date in the lower left corner of the display and the UTC date and time on the lower right -- well almost. The date that is supposed to be UTC remains as the local date. The result is that the date is wrong between 20:00 and 24:00 local each day. I have found the UTC switches for UTC hour (%G) and minutes (%N) but I cannot find what I should use for UTC day of the week, day, month, and year. I have a

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I R A Darth Aggie 7 years ago

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:02:37 -0000 (UTC), NotReal , in

Did you update the package list?

sudo apt-get update

Once you do that, then you can do the apt-get source sunclock and get something like this:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Need to get 1,585 kB of source archives. Get:1

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jessie/main sunclock 3.57-3 (dsc) [1,208 B] Get:2

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jessie/main sunclock 3.57-3 (tar) [1,571 kB] Get:3

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jessie/main sunclock 3.57-3 (diff) [13.1 kB]

Then you should see 13 patches being applied, and ending up with a directory called sunclock-3.57. From there, you can make your changes, then build your own .deb package, and then "sudo dpkg -i sunclock(stuff).deb" and install in the usual way.

That's because some of those source packages will generate many binary packages. For instance, the source package gcc-8 generates 190 binary packages.

Take a look:

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NotReal 7 years ago

I have issued

sudo apt-get update

several times along the way, but I did it again to be sure it was current and received two updates totalling 15k.

debian stretch InRelease raspbian stretch InRelease

After that I repeated

apt-get source sunclock

but it still shows

Reading package lists... Done E: Unable to find a source package for sunclock

I notice that your references all indicate jessie. Could my problems be related to using stretch?

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Richard Kettlewell 7 years ago

That is not a sensible debugging strategy. sudo can (essentially) only bypass permissions checks. It will not make your system find files that do not exist or bypass compilation errors.

I expect you have missing or incorrect deb-src lines. If you post your sources.list here someone will be able to tell you.

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Dennis Lee Bieber 7 years ago

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:33:34 -0000 (UTC), I R A Darth Aggie declaimed the following:

You are running jessie (debian 8.x), the OP is running stretch (debian

9.x)

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NotReal 7 years ago

That was indeed the problem. When I went looking for a reason for "apt-get source" not working, I found the line "Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'" in a file and when I did that it worked . Problem solved - or so I thought. By work I mean I wasn't the getting the error message about missing URIs and I was instead getting the message "Unable to find a source package for sunclock".

Based on your last sentence I went looking for sources.list and found the same message but the line below was still commented out and I figured I had not saved it correctly. On further investigation, based on my past posts, I found that the file that I uncommented was

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list

Thanks to you, I have now found the same line in

/etc/apt/sources.list

I altered that file as well, did the update, and

apt-get source sunclock

worked.

I am not sure how I found the former file first when the latter should have been more obvious but I now have the source files. I will now go back and look at all the other helpful posts and try to move forward.

Thank you.

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NotReal 7 years ago

SUCCESS. The UTC date now rolls over at midnight UTC rather than at the local time midnight.

A thank you to all who helped me along the way, particularly to the Natural Philosopher for pointing the way to the code that needed additions, and to Mr. Kettlewell for pointing the right way for a successful source code download and the compiling hints.

There are still some changes to make the display exactly the way I want so I might be back, but now I have at least a good foundation to build on. Thanks again.

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The Natural Philosopher 7 years ago

Bravo!

Maybe Richard can tell you how to submit your changes as possible additions to the main code branch.

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