# Change time label in Current Time toolbar

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/change-time-label-in-current-time-toolbar/6025
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [December 10, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/change-time-label-in-current-time-toolbar/6025 "2020-12-10T11:27:47Z")
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### Author: ![Raimonds\_Vilums](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/raimonds_vilums/32/1216_2.png) [@Raimonds\_Vilums](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Raimonds_Vilums)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/change-time-label-in-current-time-toolbar/6025/1 "2020-12-10T11:27:47Z")

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Hi!

Is there a possibility to change the text “Time:” in the Current Time toolbar to something else without rebuilding all ParaView?  
We use different frequency values for optimization. The animation is handy, but the text is not appropriate for end-users.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/change-time-label-in-current-time-toolbar/6025/2 "2020-12-10T11:59:19Z")

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The correct way to do that it would be through a dedicated toolbar plugin.

That being said, you may be able to do that using python Qt directly.

Edit: See @utkarsh.ayachit answer below

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### Author: ![utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/utkarsh.ayachit/32/39_2.png) [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/change-time-label-in-current-time-toolbar/6025/3 "2020-12-10T12:44:45Z")

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It’s possible if you have a custom reader/data producer.

See the code for plugin called “NonOrthogonalSource” in ParaView. It demonstrates how you can do that using a custom data producer. To test, load the plugin and create `ShearedWavelet` source and enable/set time label as shown below.

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/618f3ef27ebf7d91a4e60ee821a247bb1a691cbd.jpeg)

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### Author: ![Raimonds\_Vilums](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/raimonds_vilums/32/1216_2.png) [@Raimonds\_Vilums](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Raimonds_Vilums)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/change-time-label-in-current-time-toolbar/6025/4 "2020-12-14T11:27:29Z")

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Thanks, it will help. Should modification via python script be also possible? We launch ParaView with our custom script already.