Unable to change the format on Clock Module to 12 Hr

[AlexanderHughey]

I'm attempting to change the format of my clock to 12 Hr. Regardless of the changes I make in my config the clock remains in a 24 Hr format. The time it provides is correct, and I've ensured my locale is set correctly from the troubleshooting steps on the wiki. This discussion might be relevant, but I'm confident that I installed Chrono.date as is listed in the dependencies. In my config currently I have what I believe is the simplest implementation of a 12 Hr clock "clock": { "format": "{:%I:%M %p}", }, Any other modules I've customized have updated and worked perfectly, but I'm a complete amateur and wouldn't be surprised if I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks,
Alexander

[yerlotic]

The wiki says:

If using clock instead of simpleclock, the locale will default to C regardless of the locale settings. To override this behavior you have to perpend L to the formatting string. For example, {:%a %m %d} becomes {:L%a %m %d}.

So you can try this, or use a custom module for clock if it still doesn't work

    "custom/clock": {
        "exec": "LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 date '+%I:%M %p'",
        "interval": 60  // seconds
    },
    "clock": {
        "format": "{:L%I:%M %p}",
        "locale": "en_US.UTF-8",
    },

[AlexanderHughey]

The "custom clock" solution didn't show up in the bar. I made sure I was calling "custom/clock" in my modules list. The standalone "clock" solution resulted in the same 24 Hr clock that I was previously getting. There was no new errors in my terminal when I reloaded waybar.

[yerlotic]

This seems strange.
Does just echo hi work in a custom module?

Does this command work in a shell? Is your shell - fish?

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 date '+%I:%M %p'

[AlexanderHughey]

Sorry for my delayed response, I appreciate your help. It's really odd, I can't get the echo hi to appear in my waybar. LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 date '+%I:%M %p' Does properly output in my shell. I think I'll grab someone's config from the examples page just to rule out if its my incompetence. If I can get custom modules and clock formatting with someone else's config its likely I'm just missing something obvious. I'll update if I have any luck.

[AlexanderHughey]

Using another persons config solved the issue. Thank you for all your help