You might have noticed that by default when you load your Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian OS for the first time that the clock displays time in a 24-hour clock format. As majority of us are used to the 12-hour format, it’s something that we should all change.
You can change the Raspbian clock format using the GUI or Terminal.
Change the Clock Format Using Raspbian’s Desktop GUI
Enter the following string for a 12-hour clock:
%I:%M %pYour Raspberry Pi Digital Clock window should look like this screenshot:
Change Clock Format Using Terminal
The way your system displays the clock format is stored within a configuration file, located here: /home/pi/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/panels/panel.
- To edit this file, Open Terminal application. You can use any text editors to edit the file. In our example below, we’ll be using nano edit.
- Save the configuration
.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/panels/panel
Avocados (also known as alligator pear) are one of the best super fruits available in the summer, it’s high in nutrition. Avocado tastes great on it’s owns or as a guacamole dip with tortilla chips or crackers. Try saving the avocado seed next time when you are slicing one and grow it into an avocado tree!
Avocados are native to Mexico and Central America but now you can also grown an avocado tree right at your home, read on to learn how.
Getting Started
Avocados requires rich and well composted soil. If you’ve ever grown a tree before, you’ll know that seed-grown trees takes up to seven years to produce any fruits, If you’re looking for a shorter time span to start producing fruits, it might be a better idea to purchase one from a nursery.
Remove and Clean the Avocado Seed Pit
- Remove the seed pit from a fresh, ripe avocado. Try to remove the avocado seed without using a knife to avoid damaging it.
- Soak the avocado seed in room temperature water for a few minutes and scrub away any remaining avocado fruit off of it. Try not to remove the seed cover, brown skin on the pit.
- Locate
- Using three toothpicks, stick them at a slight downward angle into the avocado seed.
- Watch your avocado seed sprout. This process can take anywhere between 6 to 8 weeks.
Time to Pot the Avocado Seed in Soil
Place it near a sunny windowsill. Avocados are natives to warmer climates, so they love the sun.
Winter Season
Small avocado trees in areas where there is a winter season will need to be brought back indoors. They will not be able to tolerate weather under degrees Celsius.
Bearing Avocado Fruits
While it is easy to grow an avocado tree, it is difficult to bear fruit. You usually will have better success if you have several avocado trees to help with pollination.
Silica gel is the little packets that manufacturers place to inside the packaging of electronics, shoes, foods. They are used to help absorb moisture during shipping and storage. The packaging of these desiccant silica gel packets usually comes with a warning to “Throw Away” and “Do Not Eat”.
While eating silica gel isn’t toxic if ingested, the tiny size particles makes it easy for people to choke on it. Unfortunately, children sometimes can mistake the little silica gels as candy. If you and someone you know is choking on silica gel, call 911 and seek medical attention.
You don’t necessarily have to throw these silica gel packets away since there’s plenty of uses for them around your household.
Odor-Free Gym Bag
Silica gel packets can help absorb moisture and keep your gym cloths and whatever you toss into your gym bag bacteria free.
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