12h time and date card

Configuration
1

Hello All!

I’m new to HA and I’ve been trying to get a simple 12h time and date card working and nothing I do seems to work (correctly). I"ve found many posts and put together a combination of what I’ve found. What has worked (but in 24h format) is:

- platform: time_date
    display_options:
      - 'time'
      - 'date'
      - 'time_date'

However if I use another method (or a mix of them), the formatting and information layout is correct but it doesn’t continually update:

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      simple_time_date:
        friendly_name: "Simple Time Date"
        entity_id: sensor.time
        value_template: "{{ as_timestamp(now()) | timestamp_custom('%-I:%m%p,  %A %m/%d/%Y') }}"

Basically I want the format to be: 3:08PM, Thursday 08/20/2020. Can someone please tell me how to get the above to update 1x per minute like a normal clock would? Right now it seems like it polls once a day. Also if I’m doing this wrong, it could be due to taking the syntax from various posts.

Thanks!

2

Hello Again,

So I don’t know if this problem is too simply but I’m not sure what else to try. The card and info I put in works but it’s not updating. Should it be? The interface if I look at it now shows the format I’m looking for but a date of 3:08PM, Saturday 08/22/2020. Meaning that the last update wasn’t ever minute like a normal clock but about 2 days ago.

Thanks