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man(1) Profanity XMPP client man(1)

NAME

/time - the Profanity /time command.

DESCRIPTION

Configure time display preferences. Time formats are strings supported by g_date_time_format. See https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-GDateTime.html#g-date-time-format for more details. Setting the format to an unsupported string, will display the string. If the format contains spaces, it must be surrounded with double quotes. It is possible to pass format as 'iso8601' in order to set the time format according to ISO-8601 (only local time, without Time zone designator).

SYNOPSIS

/time all|console|chat|muc|config|private|xml set <format>

/time all|console|chat|muc|config|private|xml off

/time statusbar set <format>

/time statusbar off

/time lastactivity set <format>

/time vcard set <format>

ARGUMENTS

console set <format>

Set time format for console window.

console off

Do not show time in console window.

chat set <format>

Set time format for chat windows.

chat off

Do not show time in chat windows.

muc set <format>

Set time format for chat room windows.

muc off

Do not show time in chat room windows.

config set <format>

Set time format for config windows.

config off

Do not show time in config windows.

private set <format>

Set time format for private chat windows.

private off

Do not show time in private chat windows.

xml set <format>

Set time format for XML console window.

xml off

Do not show time in XML console window.

statusbar set <format>

Change time format in statusbar.

statusbar off

Do not show time in status bar.

lastactivity set <format>

Change time format for last activity.

vcard set <format>

Change the time format used to display time/dates in vCard (such as birthdays)

all set <format>

Set time for: console, chat, muc, config, private, and xml windows.

all off

Do not show time for: console, chat, muc, config, private and xml windows.

EXAMPLES

/time console set %H:%M:%S

/time chat set "%d-%m-%y %H:%M:%S"

/time xml off

/time statusbar set %H:%M

/time lastactivity set "%d-%m-%y %H:%M:%S"

/time all set "%d-%m-%y %H:%M:%S"

/time all set iso8601

2025-08-22 0.15.0