A configurable digital clock

This applet allows you to show a digital clock, and to format it any way you like it...

You can configure the following things:

Font (Family, Size, Weight)
Color (Foreground, Background)
What's displayed (Using format conversions from the UNIX date(1) command.

How to use it

Following is a description of the parameters you can give to the applet, and how it looks.

FontFamily

Syntax: <PARAM NAME="FontFamily" VALUE="FamilyName">
where FamilyName is the name of the Font you want to use. Currently, the fonts I can get to work are:

Courier
Helvetica
TimesRoman

Default: TimesRoman

FontWeight

Syntax: <PARAM NAME="FontWeight" VALUE="Weight">
where Weight is the weight to apply to the Font. Valid values are:

plain
bold
italic

It is not possible to combine the weights.

Default: plain

BGCol

Syntax: <PARAM NAME="BGCol" VALUE="Color">
where Color is the hexadecimal representation of the background color you wish to use.

Format: RRGGBB

Default: 'Netscape Gray' (c0c0c0)

FGCol

Syntax: <PARAM NAME="FGCol" VALUE="Color">
where Color is the hexadecimal representation of the foreground (text) color you wish to use.

Format: RRGGBB

Default: Black (000000)

DateFmt

Syntax: <PARAM NAME="DateFmt" VALUE="Format">
where Format is the format of the string you want to display.

The string can contain text, as well as formatting fields. Formatting fields begin with the '%' character. Example: %H will display the current hour.

a abbreviated weekday name (3 characters)
A full weekday name
b abbreviated month name (3 characters)
B full month name
c locale's appropriate date and time representation
C default date and time format
d day of month - 01 to 31
D date as %m/%d/%y
e day of month - 1 to 31 (single digits are preceded by a blank)
h abbreviated month name (alias for %b)
H hour - 00 to 23
I hour - 01 to 12
m month of year - 01 to 12
M minute - 00 to 59
p string containing ante-meridiem or post-meridiem indicator (AM or PM)
r time as %I:%M:%S %p
R time as %H:%M
S second - 00 to 61, allows for leap seconds
T time as %H:%M:%S
w day of week - Sunday = 0
y year within century - 00 to 99
Y year as ccyy (4 digits)
% to display the '%' character in the display

The following conversions from date(1) are not supported:

j
u
W
n
t

Default: "%a, %B %e %T"