Command execution time uses localized AM/PM (e.g., 午前/午後) instead of "am/pm"

[tkm5]

Describe the bug

The command_execution_time segment has started displaying the time using a localized format for AM/PM. In my Japanese locale (ja_JP.UTF-8), it now shows 午前 (gozen) and 午後 (gogo) instead of the previously used "am" and "pm".

While I appreciate the localization effort, I prefer the consistent and more compact "am/pm" format. This seems to be a recent change, as it worked as expected before.

To Reproduce

1. Set the system time locale to Japanese: export LC_TIME=ja_JP.UTF-8
2. Run a command that takes some time, e.g., sleep 1.
3. Observe the command_execution_time segment.

Expected behavior

The time should be displayed with "am" or "pm", for example: at 10:30:15 am.

Actual behavior

The time is displayed using the localized equivalent, for example: at 午前10:30:15.

Screenshots

Environment

• OS: macOS 15.5
• Terminal: iTerm2
• Zsh version: zsh 5.9 (arm64-apple-darwin24.0)
• Powerlevel10k version: 8fa10f4
• locale output:

    LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8"
    LC_COLLATE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
    LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
    LC_MESSAGES="ja_JP.UTF-8"
    LC_MONETARY="ja_JP.UTF-8"
    LC_NUMERIC="ja_JP.UTF-8"
    LC_TIME="ja_JP.UTF-8"
    LC_ALL=
  

Additional context

My POWERLEVEL9K_COMMAND_EXECUTION_TIME_FORMAT is set to the default 'd.h:m:s'.

Is there a way to force the "am/pm" format regardless of the system locale? Perhaps a new option or a specific format string I can use?

Thank you for your amazing work on Powerlevel10k!

[ArchWand]

This is time: current time, not command_execution_time. Of note:

  # Format for the current time: 09:51:02. See `man 3 strftime`.
  typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_TIME_FORMAT='%D{%H:%M:%S}'

Reading the man pages makes me think that the change is likely due to some other change on your system, and that what you want is not directly possible.

One possible solution is to modify POWERLEVEL9K_TIME_FORMAT depending on the time of day (basically hardcode in either am or pm depending on the output of date), but this won't update dynamically (only when you reload the bar, most likely by opening a new shell).

[romkatv]

command_execution_time shows how long it took for the previous command to execute. It is displayed when a command takes at least POWERLEVEL9K_COMMAND_EXECUTION_TIME_THRESHOLD seconds to execute. The default value is 3. If you run sleep 3, you'll see this segment -- it should display 3s. With a longer duration it might look like this: 1d 2h 3m 4s. The format does not depend on the current locale.

What you have in the screenshot is time, not command_execution_time. It shows the current time. The format is set with POWERLEVEL9K_TIME_FORMAT and it respect your locale -- this is by design and intended. If you want an "international" format, use POWERLEVEL9K_TIME_FORMAT='%D{%H:%M:%S}'.