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how to get a raspberry pi to display the current time

how can I get a raspberry pi 16x2 charter display show the current time in the EST time zone using the "rpi_lcd" library, thank you in advanced

Solution

  • Very easy, you just need to use datetime and create a custom time format and pass it to the lcd.text function. This code assumes that your circuit connection is fine.

    import datetime
import pytz
from time import sleep
from rpi_lcd import LCD

lcd = LCD(width=16, rows=2)
tz = pytz.timezone("US/Eastern")

while True:
    lcd.text(datetime.datetime.now(tz=tz).strftime(
        "%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), 1)  # for a 16x2 display
    sleep(1)
    lcd.clear()