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I have been trying to access the Date and Time setting in my Ubuntu 14.04 to modify the time (which is wrong).

I click in the hour in the top-right corner of the top bar, and then in "Date & Time Settings..." 1. Instead it takes me to "System Settings" 2. If I tried to click on "Time & Date" in "System Settings", it just closes the "System Settings" screen.

If I start the gnome-control-center from the command line I get the following:

(unity-control-center:4000): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 
'com.canonical.indicator.datetime' does not contain a key named 'show-year' 
Trace/breakpoint trap

I went to sudo dconf-editor and check in com > canonical > indicator > datetime. I can confirm that show-year doesn't exist. I am not sure if I can simply add a new variable there and if it is so, how?

Thanks!

1 Date and Time Settings

Date and Time Settings

2 System Settings

System Settings

toto_tico
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That error message is odd. It does not find a key which indeed exists in one of the files belonging to the indicator-datetime package. This command reinstalls the package:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall indicator-datetime

Also, it should be noted that in Ubuntu 14.04 it's unity-control-center to open System Settings from command line, not gnome-control-center. It should be possible to have both the packages installed, but based on my experience there is a risk for conflicts/confusion. So I would recommend that the gnome-control-center package is uninstalled.

Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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try using this cli

pkill -f indicator-datetime-service

clock will appear directly.

credit : @Sneetsher

Yash Vekaria
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try to type "Time" (without the quote) in the right top search box of the "All Settings"

But likley this will crash too. Please start the "All Settings" / System Settings via command line: gnome-control-center

and try to access Date & Time, if it crash the terminal might give you an inside why.

Otherwise you can set the date and time via command line (see here: What is the command line statement for changing the System clock?)

Community
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TiloBunt
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Another work around. Change the timezone in the command line:

  1. Open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T)

  2. Type and press Enter

    sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

  3. Search for your timezone in the screens

toto_tico
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You can use this command also:

sudo killall unity-panel-service

The clock will appear on Desktop in the menu bar.

Melebius
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Pooja Mane
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Start the System Settings as root

  1. Open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T)

  2. Type and press Enter

    sudo gnome-control-center

  3. Click Date & Time

It doesn't fix the problem but it is good a workaround.

toto_tico
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I had the same problem. Tried to access time and date, but nothing happened, and I intermittently received an error message. For me, the solution was to reinstall the GTK+3 timezone map widget in libtimezonemap1 via the synaptic package manager.

xiota
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Megajoe
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