[mythtv-users] Adding the Day of Week to the EPG

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/06/2006 12:46 AM, Martin Fitzgerald wrote:
> Im using the Titivillus theme and want to add the shortened Day of week identifier to the EPG. I would thinkg its just a matter of modifying the ui.xml to change the section that says :
>
>      <container name="date_info">
>       <area>20,185,115,25</area>
>       <textarea name="date" draworder="4" align="center">
>          <font>info</font>
>          <area>0,0,115,25</area>
>          <cutdown>no</cutdown>
>       </textarea>
>     </container>
>
> to instead have some flag to show what day it is (Mon,Tue,Wed ...). In looking at the screen there should in fact be room to have both the day and date. 
>
> Unfortunately I have no idea if :
> 1 - I am looking in the right spot
> 2 - if there is an easier way to do this 
> 3 - if its really possible without recoding myth to recognize a new textarea name.
>
> Am i doing this correctly or is there a better way to customize the GUI? 

I think you just have to set the date format/short date format in the 
frontend settings under Appearance.

Mike