I like Unity very much. Recently, I installed Compiz manager and Nautilus Elementary also then tried to Play. During some of my playing around, Unity's clock applet has vanished.
I want to make it show the time again. How can I do this?
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Having date and time gone on Ubuntu 13.10 beta, after next reboot, this command solves the problem:
killall unity-panel-service
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Reinstall indicator-datetime. It should be installed by default, but just in case you have removed it unknowingly, it is best to run the install command again.
sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime
Next, we are going to reconfigure the date time:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata
Lastly, restart unity.
sudo killall unity-panel-service
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2This was the solution that worked for me. Running fully patched Ubuntu 13.10 on 23rd Feb 2014. Thanks!– KimFeb 23, 2014 at 15:50
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Click the Ubuntu logo in the top-left.
Search for and open "Time and Date".
Open the Clock tab.
Make sure the box "Show a clock in menu bar" is ticked.
Also make sure the package indicator-datetime is installed.
answered May 30, 2011 at 7:46
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43Interestingly enough, when what happens on my machine (13.10) this whole tab is greyed out (albeit "Show a clock" is checked). Nov 28, 2013 at 10:52
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22@WaldirLeoncio when that happens (on 14.04) I found the solution is "killall unity-panel-service".– StéphaneOct 19, 2014 at 18:08
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1Reinstalling
indicator-datetimeworked for me. I think I accidentally uninstalled it when I removed someevolutionpackages. Jan 20, 2015 at 17:53 -
1Sometimes when ubuntu base is updated and I find that date panel disappears. It will come back when I boot again. But doing what @Stéphane suggested works for me.– eshwarMay 6, 2015 at 4:47
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Double check that indicator-datetime is installed. Go to terminal and type
sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime
Now log out and then back in.
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5In my case this was the solution. I had actually removed everything related to Evolution including the Evolution Server and somehow that relates to also removing the indicator-datetime. I simply installed all that again and it worked. Mar 18, 2012 at 13:40
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4OP's requested comment: instead of logging in and out (which is slow, painful, loses your state, and smells of microsoft), you can kill unity-panel-service using
ps -ef | grep unity-panel-serviceandkill <APPROPRIATE PID>This will then immediately respawn a new panel service which loads the indicator.– MochanDec 31, 2012 at 0:25 -
3Thanks for this, in my case I had it installed but a
apt-get purge indicator-datetimeand then and install was needed. Sep 16, 2013 at 12:59
On my computer, Unity shows word "Time" instead of the real time.
On Ubuntu 11 (and above?) /etc/timezone can't be empty (and it was). This wasn't an issue on previous versions.
To regenerate the TimeZone file just do:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata
It works for me.
If that doesn't work you can try restoring your defaults.
From your unity session, try re-launching unity like this:
unity --reset
answered May 30, 2011 at 7:47
If you not found Date-Time on panel then try to find out on whether its hide or not. If not then try to find out its installed or not.
If you find that Date-Time not install then you just install it. 1. apt-get install indicator-datetime 2. killall unity-panel-service
You not need to Logoff or reset Unnity. Just check on your Desktop's Right Corner.
~/.profileor similar isn't setting something likeLANG=C; export LANG... that broke this for me, if I had weekday or date stuff turned on (just time per se it would work). So, I found a way to disable that line of my profile for unity config's run through my .profile, while still setting it normally (per my preference, generally), and that fixed it for me (after logout/in).