The status bar in QGIS displays a variety of information in all sorts of contexts. It can be used for static information such as the current project projection or for real-time scrolling information such as the mouse coordinates. In this recipe, we'll print the current time to the status bar.
Open the QGIS Python console by selecting the Plugins menu and then clicking on Python Console.
All we need to do is call the status bar message method with the current time:
First, we import the time module:
import time
Then, we call the
showMessage()
method of the status bar with the current time and date:iface.mainWindow().statusBar().showMessage(time.asctime())