From eea6e46edc3718078b7a416321731e3e0e8359e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: meganomic <>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 11:56:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add commandline option for strftime_format. Set check_updates
 in config because otherwise outdated fails since it isn't set even though
 there is a 'global'

---
 glances/config.py              | 15 ++++++++++-----
 glances/main.py                |  3 +++
 glances/plugins/glances_now.py |  8 +++++---
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/glances/config.py b/glances/config.py
index 1b08d995..7c79958d 100644
--- a/glances/config.py
+++ b/glances/config.py
@@ -153,6 +153,16 @@ class Config(object):
                 self._loaded_config_file = config_file
                 break
 
+        # Globals
+        if not self.parser.has_section('global'):
+            self.parser.add_section('global')
+        self.set_default('global', 'strftime_format', '')
+
+        # check_update
+        if not self.parser.has_section('global'):
+            self.parser.add_section('global')
+        self.set_default('global', 'check_update', 'false')
+
         # Quicklook
         if not self.parser.has_section('quicklook'):
             self.parser.add_section('quicklook')
@@ -224,11 +234,6 @@ class Config(object):
         self.set_default_cwc('processlist', 'cpu')
         self.set_default_cwc('processlist', 'mem')
 
-        # Now
-        if not self.parser.has_section('strftime'):
-            self.parser.add_section('strftime')
-        self.set_default('strftime', 'format', '')
-
     @property
     def loaded_config_file(self):
         """Return the loaded configuration file."""
diff --git a/glances/main.py b/glances/main.py
index 3004aa66..75587823 100644
--- a/glances/main.py
+++ b/glances/main.py
@@ -254,6 +254,9 @@ Examples of use:
         # Globals options
         parser.add_argument('--disable-check-update', action='store_true', default=False,
                             dest='disable_check_update', help='disable online Glances version ckeck')
+        parser.add_argument('--strftime', dest='strftime_format', default='',
+                            help='strftime format string for displaying current date in standalone mode')
+
         return parser
 
     def parse_args(self):
diff --git a/glances/plugins/glances_now.py b/glances/plugins/glances_now.py
index 77c05d21..d3edb839 100644
--- a/glances/plugins/glances_now.py
+++ b/glances/plugins/glances_now.py
@@ -41,9 +41,11 @@ class Plugin(GlancesPlugin):
         # Set the message position
         self.align = 'bottom'
 
-        if config is not None:
-            if 'strftime' in config.as_dict():
-                self.strftime = config.as_dict()['strftime']['format']
+        if args.strftime_format:
+            self.strftime = args.strftime_format
+        elif config is not None:
+            if 'global' in config.as_dict():
+                self.strftime = config.as_dict()['global']['strftime_format']
 
     def reset(self):
         """Reset/init the stats."""