Presently the date is showing as mmm dd hh:mm:ss
. Is there any way that I can change it to as per my liking. For example : dd mmm, hh:mm:ss
.
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Look at this link.– karthick87May 20, 2011 at 7:50
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Nothing seems to have changed. I tried manually inserting the coded instruction as well as dconf editor. The date still shows up as Mon Apr 21, 21:24 in the upper right corner of the desktop and same in Thunderbird!– user272122Apr 21, 2014 at 19:26
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I am surprised there is no simpler way of doing this like a small application added to System Settings where one can chose the date format with a click rather than having to go through such lengths! By the time I've read through the solution, I would have almost forgotten what my difficulty was in the first place!– Bumblebee001Apr 21, 2014 at 23:45
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In 14.04, this answer worked for me: askubuntu.com/questions/237941/…– mcaleaaJan 14, 2015 at 10:20
2 Answers
Terminal method
First you need to tell the indicator to use a custom format. To do so, run this from a gnome-terminal:
gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime time-format "'custom'"
Then you need to tell the indicator which format to use. This has to be done in a format understood by the
strftime
function. You can look it up here.For example, if you want the date/time to look like this: Fri, 20. May 08:25, the format string for it would be
%a, %d. %h %H:%M
. Now let's set it:gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime custom-time-format "'%a, %d. %h %H:%M'"
GUI method
You can also set those keys using a GUI called dconf-editor
. It's part of the package dconf-tools
, which you'd need to install first by running sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
. Then open dconf-editor
, navigate to com.canonical.indicator.datetime
, and set the two keys.
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Worked great for me. I was just looking for this solution. Many many thanks htorque.– ArindomMay 20, 2011 at 12:59
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1I'm running 11.10, and I don't see any settings in com.canonical.indicator.datetime; is anyone else experiencing this? Nov 10, 2011 at 3:02
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@MikePartridge Nope, I'm still having the key and can set the date like described. Make sure you have the package
indicator-datetime
installed.– htorqueNov 10, 2011 at 5:34 -
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Ubuntu 14.04. I don't want to install dconf-editor
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I just tried the following in a terminal:
$ gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime custom-time-format "'%a %Y%m%d-%H%M%S'"
$
As you can see, there are no error messages or anything.
I then log out and log back in, but there has been no change to my clock display, which is currently %a %b %e %Y %T
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1It's fixed now. They key to success is:
gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime time-format "'custom'"
followed immediately bygsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime custom-time-format "'%a %Y%m%d-%H%M%S'
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1This should be a comment and not an answer. An answer should fully answer the question. That is why you can comment on questions as well as being able to post an answer.– user364819May 3, 2017 at 20:17
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1The accepted answer already has all the info from your answer and your comment.– wjandreaMay 4, 2017 at 19:21