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So I have looked online (believe it or not) and I can't seem to find anything to help me with my issue. My clock just disappeared. Here's a screenshot!

disappeared clock

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    I had the same experience after upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10. It's one of the reasons why I'm not longer on 13.10.
    – user85164
    Oct 20, 2013 at 21:06
  • This is NOT a duplicate of the said question. This is not happening in Gnome, but in Unity. FWIW, restarting unity brought it back in my case.
    – Mladen Jablanović
    Jan 21, 2014 at 11:47
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    I think that it is not a off-topic, since to me it as just a mistake, removing some packages....
    – insign
    Nov 9, 2015 at 13:33
  • Why is this off-topic? The one specified reason is question for development version of Ubuntu which is not the case here. Is the real reason that 13.10 is no longer supported? Should that be a reason for question to be off-topic?
    – okolnost
    Jun 14, 2016 at 5:39
  • Answering my own question on why is this off-topic: meta.askubuntu.com/q/2448/2825
    – okolnost
    Jun 27, 2016 at 17:12

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Similar thing happened to me after upgrade to 13.10. I found that this bug describes it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/1237361

I have it solved now, not sure if by installing system updates, by changing all related attributes in dconf-editor for node

com.canonical.indicator.datetime

or just by restarting unity (Alt+F2 -> "unity --replace") as commenter in above mentioned bug said it may help.

So maybe try to play a bit with settings and then trying restarting unity would not be a bad idea either.

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    (Dunno how this got marked as a duplicate — Unity ≠ Gnome.) Replacing unity can cause the window manager to fail, so you get windows without controls that you can't move or close. I've had the most success with sudo killall unity-panel-service, which reinstates the clock immediately.
    – scruss
    Feb 5, 2014 at 13:40
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    for me, unity --replace was enough. thanks for that!
    – andreas-h
    Feb 21, 2014 at 9:11
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    @scruss, you don't need the sudo. You can just run killall unity-panel-service as described in the bug, No clock in menu bar and can't edit Clock settings.
    – Don Kirkby
    Jun 17, 2014 at 17:54
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It's possible that it got uninstalled (most probably when you were trying to uninstall some other indicators). Try

sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime

And restart unity with

unity --replace

Then recheck your Clock settings. That should hopefully be the problem

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    Why the downvote?
    – notablytipsy
    Oct 20, 2013 at 21:06
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    After running above comment I needed to also restart unity with unity --replace and my clock was back
    – walkeros
    Aug 3, 2015 at 5:48
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For me check the clock settings solved the problem.. actually "Show a clock in the menu bar" was already checked, I had to uncecheck it, close the settings, reopen the settings, checked this option back and finally it worked.

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  • It would have been good if you said where the clock settings were
    – Anake
    Jan 7, 2014 at 19:43
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    @Anake: "System settings" -> "Time & Date" -> "Clock".
    – Antonello
    Jan 8, 2014 at 7:38
  • that checkbox is grayed and I cant interact with it!
    – Aquarius Power
    Jan 16, 2016 at 17:11
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    @AquariusPower A hearty killall unity-panel-service solves your problem.
    – Jonas Gröger
    May 26, 2016 at 19:34
  • Thanks @JonasGröger the killall was the solution
    – loved.by.Jesus
    Aug 15, 2016 at 9:00

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