How do I show date next to time in the panel with gnome-shell?

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I would like to show the date in the bar up the top there (next to the time). I can not see any obvious way to enable this.

score 103 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '18 at 19:10

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As a regular user run this in a terminal when using GNOME Shell:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-date true

edited May 23 '18 at 19:10

David Foerster

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answered Nov 29 '11 at 01:20

itnet7

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score 40 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 16 '15 at 21:51

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Not an ubuntu user but, if you install gnome-tweak-tool, you'll have a nice gui to adjust things like this.

I'm guessing your install from repo might be something like:

apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

edited Dec 16 '15 at 21:51

Renato

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answered Dec 22 '11 at 18:10

chadwellak

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score 11 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 22 '20 at 05:12

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For Ubuntu 17.10, I found using the gnome-tweak-tool to be the most convenient way.

Install gnome-tweak-tool if not already installed.
```
 sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool
```
Start the tool, either from command line, $ gnome-tweak-tool or using Dash (tweak).
Select Top Bar from left and then make the necessary changes at right under Clock.

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Pablo Bianchi

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answered Nov 06 '17 at 00:28

Masroor

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score 5 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 22 '20 at 05:09

For most people, the command line option supplied by itnet7 is probably the quickest.

However, if you like a GUI, you can use the tool dconf-editor. Simply run "dconf-editor". It is included by default with many distributions, but should be in the repositories if it isn't installed.

One you've started dconf-editor, follow the tree of settings to: org-gnome-shell-clock

and change the "Show date" checkbox (as shown below), and the seconds display for the clock too, if you like that sort of thing.

dconf-editor settng for panel clock

Edit: This has changed slightly for Ubuntu 12.10. Using dconf-editor, date & time settings are now located under com-canonical-indicator-appmenu-datetime.

For GNOME Shell 3.30.2 the key is org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-date.

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered May 03 '18 at 12:33

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I installed the "Clock override" extension for gnome-shell, which let's you configure how the date and time is displayed. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1206/clock-override/

answered May 03 '18 at 12:33

daniel kullmann

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 17 '13 at 13:46

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In Ubuntu 12.04 you click on the time in the bar then:

Click on Time & Settings
Click the Clock tab
In the clock, show:
- Check Weekday and/or Date and month

answered Apr 17 '13 at 13:46

JaredMcAteer

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score -1 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 27 '18 at 15:51

REF: How do I show date next to time in the panel with gnome-shell? Ubuntu 18.04: The tool "dconf-editor" also works GREAT in 18.04, although the location (in the editor) has changed. dconf-editor is easily added with the included Ubuntu Software app. Simply search for "date" with deconf-editor's search feature and turn date "on".

How do I show date next to time in the panel with gnome-shell?

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