Re: finding out time format of menu bar clock

FROM : Dimitri Bouniol
DATE : Sat Jul 01 07:53:40 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.


Also, the user might have the menu bar clock off, in analog mode, or 
in a window.

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Dimitri Bouniol
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