M .config/sway/config → .config/sway/config

@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ position top
 
     # When the status_command prints a new line to stdout, swaybar updates.
     # The default just shows the current date and time.
-    status_command while date +'%Y-%m-%d %l:%M:%S %p'; do sleep 1; done
+    status_command statusbar
 
     colors {
         statusline #ffffff

A bin/statusbar

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ 
+#!/bin/sh
+
+while true
+do
+    time=$(date +"%A %Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p")
+    time="$time $(date -u +"(%H:%M UTC)")"
+    printf "%s\n" "${time}"
+    sleep 10
+done