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I'm on ubuntu 16.04 and I was wondering if there was a way I could get the default clock in the upper right to display the month as a number instead of as a word. For example, instead of "Tue Apr 25 2017", it would display "Tue 17/4/25" or "Tue 4/25/17".

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You can achieve that using gsettings in the following way. Open your terminal and type in the following commands as displayed below:

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime show-clock true
gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime time-format custom
gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime custom-time-format "%a %m/%d/%y"

Result: Tue 4/25/17

Source:

Here you will can get other format strings that can also be used.

https://chrisjean.com/customize-ubuntu-unity-time-date-indicator/

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  • Please note the update for the day name its %a not %b as earlier written...
    – George Udosen
    Apr 26, 2017 at 3:48
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    Yeah, I'm working off the man page anyways. Thank you!
    – Cyncopate
    Apr 26, 2017 at 3:49

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