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🎀 NAME 🎀

/time — the Profanity /time command, bestie. 💖

Yes babes, this is man(1) — the manual page situation for the Profanity XMPP client — and this lil corner of it is all about /time. She's the command that runs the whole time-and-date aesthetic of your client. Periodt. ✨

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so. /time is where you configure your time display preferences. Every time format you hand her is a string that has to be supported by g_date_time_format. 🕐

For the deets, go peek at https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-GDateTime.html#g-date-time-format. No cap, that's where the lore lives. 🔥

Here's the tea you actually need:

  • If you set the format to an unsupported string, she'll just display that string. Like, she's not gonna fight you on it — she'll show it verbatim. 💀
  • If your format has spaces in it, you HAVE to wrap it in double quotes. No quotes, no vibes, no service. 🙈
  • You can also pass the format as 'iso8601', and that sets the time format according to ISO-8601. Heads up tho: that's only local time, without a 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 👑

Choose your fighter, bestie. Every one of these is here, no skips. 💜

  • console set <format> — sets the time format for the console window. 🎀
  • console off — do not show time in the console window. bye time. 😭
  • chat set <format> — sets the time format for chat windows.
  • chat off — do not show time in chat windows.
  • muc set <format> — sets the time format for chat room windows.
  • muc off — do not show time in chat room windows.
  • config set <format> — sets the time format for config windows.
  • config off — do not show time in config windows.
  • private set <format> — sets the time format for private chat windows.
  • private off — do not show time in private chat windows.
  • xml set <format> — sets the time format for the XML console window.
  • xml off — do not show time in the XML console window.
  • statusbar set <format> — changes the time format in the statusbar. 👑
  • statusbar off — do not show time in the status bar.
  • lastactivity set <format> — changes the time format for last activity.
  • vcard set <format> — changes the time format used to display time/dates in vCard (such as birthdays). 🎂
  • all set <format> — sets the time for: console, chat, muc, config, private, and xml windows. the everything bagel option 🥯
  • all off — do not show time for: console, chat, muc, config, private and xml windows.

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Slay, here's what it looks like in the wild:

/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

See how the ones with spaces got the double quotes? Do that. Don't be the girl who forgets the quotes. 🫶

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this page came to you courtesy of version 0.18.2, dated 2026-06-08. mwah, go configure your timestamps, you absolute icon 💖✨🦋

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