Eric A. MeyerDear Apple, please give the Weather app the option to show temperatures in both F and C, particularly on the menu bar in macOS. It would really help in chats that involve both US and non-US participants. Thank you so much!
John Gruber@Meyerweb This would also be a great way to help people learn to be “bilingual” with both scales.
benji@Meyerweb I also wish Apple provided this by default. I have been using xbar (or SwiftBar) so that I can run scripts and output results in the menu bar. This is the one I use for temperature:
echo "$(curl -s 'wttr.in/Minneapolis?m&format=%t')/$(curl -s 'wttr.in/Minneapolis?u&format=%t')" | tr -d '+'
@benji Hmmm, it looks like these things would also let me display the date and timezone offset in *exactly* the manner I want it. Hmmm hmmm hmmmmmm.
@Meyerweb Yeah, the wttr.in docs has quite a bit of formatting options. There's also a ton of plugins out there with varying levels of complexity if you're looking to add other such things to the menu bar.
@benji Can’t tell if xbar or Swiftbar is a better choice, and neither project seems much for selling itself to people who don’t already know what they are. Am I seeing this right that Swiftbar reads xbar files?
Christopher Kirk-Nielsen@Meyerweb I know it's not what you want, and you probably know this already, but in a pinch, open Spotlight and type "50F" or "10C" and it'll show you the conversion result without needing to press enter or adding in the ° symbol. I use this all the time on calls with my family, but what you suggest would be very nice to help me learn Fahrenheit!
Dr Adam Procter@Meyerweb or just adopt Celsius which makes a ton more sense and is pretty much universal already ;)
@adamprocter Uh huh.
Jason Coleman@Meyerweb Yes. And an option to show both in the app (maybe one smaller than the other). Not a hard thing and so handy.
Dan V Peterson