Re: finding out time format of menu bar clock

FROM : Steve Christensen
DATE : Sat Jul 01 07:45:20 2006

On Jun 30, 2006, at 10:04 PM, Donald Hall wrote:

> Does anyone know a way to determine programmatically in Cocoa 
> whether or not the user has set the "use a 24-hour clock" option in 
> the Date & Time preferences pane? Accessing NSTimeFormatString 
> through NSUserDefaults gives you the time format for the current 
> locale, not the menu bar clock. I would like to be able to see what 
> the user is using in the menu bar, and then have my application 
> show the time in the same format. I couldn't figure out where this 
> information is stored - presumably in a plist somewhere.


Perhaps ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.MenuBarClock.plist?

Although in most cases, the way to display a date or time shouldn't 
really be dictated by the format used in the menu bar clock. The 
clock settings I use are nothing like the standard date/time settings 
for my locale; they're appropriate for how I use the clock, but not 
for much else...  :-)

steve