How can I show the date in the gnome 3 menubar?

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Gnome 3 has a menu bar that includes the day of the week and the time. The date and time settings allow the time to be shown in 24 hour or AM/PM style.

There do not appear, however, to be any options for displaying the date. Instead of "Thu 1:59 PM", I'd like it to read (for example) "1:59 PM, Thursday, March 28, 2013".

How can I configure the format of the date in the menu bar?

score 29 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '13 at 21:36

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You can use dconf-editor to change many of the settings (GSettings) on your GNOME desktop environment. For this case you need to install the dconf-tools package. Run dconf-editor and find the appropriate key for your time settings.

e.g. org.gnome.desktop.interface.clock-show-date

answered Apr 05 '13 at 21:36

Chance Snow

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Too bad the nice people of Gnome didn't put this setting in the UI. It's the date I need to glance to once in a while, I usually know what day it is. – Bart Friederichs Nov 18 '13 at 08:35
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Previously this was provided by the `org.gnome.shell.clock.show-date` key but has changed around GNOME 3.6. This may be changed graphically using the `gnome-teak-tool` UI, too. – liberforce Nov 22 '13 at 16:33
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@liberforce you have a typo: it is `gnome-tweak-tool` and thanks – mau Nov 19 '15 at 00:39

score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 13 '13 at 23:10

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[To expand on what liberforce said]

launch gnome-tweak-tool, sometimes called Advanced Settings
click the Shell menu, then enable Show date in clock

answered Dec 13 '13 at 23:10

Nathan Kidd

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I think it might be called `gnome-tweak` now. – Nicholas DiPiazza Nov 10 '19 at 23:32

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 24 '21 at 07:03

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Activities -> Show Applications -> Tweaks

This program was preinstalled on my Debian installation.

Select Top Bar in the left menu. Then enable date.

answered Apr 24 '21 at 07:03

theerrormagnet

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 16 '14 at 09:25

The gnome-tweak-tool works (the dconf-editor does not) debian 7(wheezy) ... however now the box is too narrow to display the time ... sigh

Turns out this is a "real-estate" issue , I used https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/112/remove-accesibility/ to recover a small bit of space, now I can see date AND time

score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 18 '19 at 15:36

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In GNOME 3.28.2, this setting made the date show up in the top bar:

/org/gnome/desktop/interface/clock-show-date

answered Jun 18 '19 at 15:36

Matthias

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score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 28 '19 at 16:10

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I use GNOME Flashback. The path to the relevant settings in dconf-editor is /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/:

answered Dec 28 '19 at 16:10

Miłosz Łakomy

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How can I show the date in the gnome 3 menubar?

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