awesomewm/modules/simple_widgets/textclock.lua

local textclock = {}

textclock.widget = wibox.widget {
	{
		{   -- Right spacer
			widget = wibox.widget.separator,
			color = beautiful.color.transparent,
			forced_width = beautiful.dpi(3)
		},
		wibox.widget {
			wibox.widget.textclock("<span font=\"" .. config.core.font.normal .. "\">%m/%d</span>"),
			wibox.widget.textclock("<span font=\"" .. config.core.font.normal .. "\">%I:%M</span>", 60),

			-- Long format:
			-- wibox.widget.textclock("%m/%d/%y"),
			-- wibox.widget.textclock("%I:%M:%S", 1),
			-- %H - 24-hour time
			-- %I - 12-hour time

			forced_num_cols = 1,
			forced_num_rows = 2,
			homogeneous     = true,
			expand          = true,
			layout = wibox.layout.grid
		},
		{   -- Left spacer
			widget = wibox.widget.separator,
			color = beautiful.color.transparent,
			forced_width = beautiful.dpi(3)
		},

		layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal,
	},
	layout = wibox.container.background,
}

-- Change background when mouse is over widget
textclock.widget:connect_signal("mouse::enter", function(result)
	textclock.widget.bg = beautiful.color.bar.hover_bg
end)

textclock.widget:connect_signal("mouse::leave", function(result)
	textclock.widget.bg = beautiful.color.transparent
end)

return textclock