Mastodawn

Dear 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!

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benji Mar 19

@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 '+'

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Eric A. Meyer Mar 19

@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.

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benji Mar 19

@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.

https://github.com/matryer/xbar-plugins/tree/main/Weather

xbar-plugins/Weather at main · matryer/xbar-plugins

Plugin repository for xbar (the BitBar reboot). Contribute to matryer/xbar-plugins development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Eric A. Meyer Mar 19

@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?

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benji

@Meyerweb Yeah, they're pretty much the same thing other than xbar is written in Go and Swiftbar in Swift. I recently migrated to Swiftbar to try it out and everything is working as expected with the same plugins I was using in xbar.