Questions tagged [date]
Questions regarding NTP(network time protocol), cron(task scheduler) and the display of date and time in the panels and elsewhere in Ubuntu. This is an overly general tag, avoid using it if possible.
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How to change the date format? [duplicate]
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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How to change Date/Time format to English?
I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 and set my local time/date and its working, the only thing that's bugging me is that I cannot change it to English. I would like to do this because it is hard to read and ...
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How can I change the date and time on Ubuntu?
When I go to change the date and time it doesn't work. I try to unlock but it just won't unlock. If there is any way to make it work please help.
I know it isn't very descriptive but I really would ...
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How do I customize the date/time display in GNOME Shell's top bar?
Time indicator is shown as "%a %H:%M" in the center of the top bar.
How do I move it back to the right where it belongs, and make it include the full date and time ("%Y-%m-%d %s %H:%M")?
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How to change ubuntu's server date and time via command line?
The Ubuntu server's current date and time is different from the time zone date and time. I have tried using:
sudo date "30 Sep 2015 4:43:42"
to change it but it did not change the date and time, ...
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date command not resolving properly in bash alias
I'm trying to set up a way for me to just type newjournal, and a new journal entry named year-month-date-time.txt is created in a year subdirectory in ~/documents/journals.
I've got it set up as an ...
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Get today’s date and use it in filename
Using the command-line, I want to create a log file with today's date in the name (for example, today is 05/17/2011, so the filename would have to be log051711).
I know how to create the file (touch ...
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How to stop automatic time update via terminal?
This question shows how to stop automatic time update (and switch to manual):
How to stop automatic time update?
I want to do this exact thing but I can only ssh onto my machine so I need to make ...
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How can I batch convert folder names from one date format to another
I have a large number of folders, named as dates like so:
10 Aug 2010 15 Sep 2010 20 Jun 2010 25 Jul 2010 6 Nov 2010
10 Sep 2010 16 Aug 2010 20 Mar 2010 26 Aug 2010 6 Oct 2010
11 Apr 2010 16 ...
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How to change the date format in Nautilus list columns?
The date format of the date columns is really long "Tue 12 June 2012 17:12:34 PHT". I would prefer a shorter version, e.g. 12/06/2012 or 12/06/2012 17:12.
I tried to change it in Settings/Language ...
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How to maintain a file's 'last modified' date?
I'm copying files and folders over from one filesystem to another (both are ext3) via cp in the terminal. The 'date modified' on all of the files are being changed to the current time although I am ...
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Change Ubuntu time and date for specific application
Is there any application which can manipulate time and date for any specific application? If I change date and time of system then browser can't let me access internet.
Any help will be appreciated. ...
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How do you Set Custom Time in Ubuntu?
I want to set a custom time in ubuntu 14.04
lets say : 8 OCT 2010 18:00:00
wrkstn@wrkstn-VirtualBox:~$ sudo date --set="8 OCT 2006 18:00:00"
Sun Oct 8 18:00:00 PETST 2006
wrkstn@wrkstn-VirtualBox:~...
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How can I display the current time & date setting?
How can I display the current time configuration, like the time zone, in Ubuntu?
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Ubuntu 18.04 show date and time on every screen
Since the update to 18.04 from 16.04, i see top bar with date and time only on the primary screen of my notebook. On the other screens the top bar is not shown.
Another anoying thing is i see only ...
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How to add n hours to a specified time?
I'd like to have a time, say 6:45am, and add an amount of hours, say 1.45 hours, to result in another time. So I'd like to add 1.45 hours to 6:45am to get another time.
Is there a command line utile ...
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mkdir with date name? [duplicate]
In Linux shell, am I able to create a directory but the name would be a string returned from another program? And if I am able, how to?
In particular I am asked to create a new directory in my Home, ...
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Ubuntu keeps resetting time to -3 hours
I have a dual boot system with Win 7 / Ubuntu 13.04. For some reason, Ubuntu resets the system time to -3 hours regardless of timezone settings. I thought that this was UTC problem, but the problem ...
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Last access timestamp updated every 24 hours
The last access timestamp of my files is updated every 24 hours whenever I access an files. E.g. I type "ls" and if the last access timestamp of the file is older than 24 it is updated to the current ...
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How to display date under time in GNOME
In Ubuntu 18.04, my current desktop looks like this:
How do I display date under time in GNOME panel as below?
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Date and time panel is greyed out, how do I restore it?
Date and time is showing in the login screen (unity-greeter) but not when I login to my session.
When I go to date and time settings the panel is all grey :
Any idea how to recover from this ?
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What files get edited when the system time changes?
If the system time is changed on Linux, what files get edited? I know the timezone is kept in etc/timezone but is there anything if the timezone is not changed, but the time is?
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"Date and Time Settings" GUI in Ubuntu 14.04 is not working?
I have been trying to access the Date and Time setting in my Ubuntu 14.04 to modify the time (which is wrong).
I click in the hour in the top-right corner of the top bar, and then in "Date & Time ...
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How to fix wrong system time and date?
I just ran a clean install of 12.10 on my sys76 laptop.
Time and date reads: 19:36 31 december 1969, even though it is: 13:29 07 november 2012.
I have it set for my location and it won't change ...
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How do I show date next to time in the panel with gnome-shell?
I would like to show the date in the bar up the top there (next to the time). I can not see any obvious way to enable this.
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Where does ntpdate get its settings from and what is the "no servers can be used" error about?
When I run ntpdate on its own, I get the following output:
8 Jun 15:47:46 ntpdate[31251]: no servers can be used, exiting
If I run it with the -q ntp.ubuntu.com switch, it seems to query just fine....
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Thunderbird date format?
I have ubuntu 10.04 running Thunderbird 14.0
How do I change the date format to international standard? (eg; 2012-07-26)
My system date already shows this format.
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Fuzzy-Clock for Ubuntu
A long while ago, I had a clock set to say things like morning, day, evening, night, for time in a panel app. Broad stroke, not very specific, It might have been a KDE desktop. I am in Ubuntu Mate now,...
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Date format in UNIX
How can I show date in YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+ZZZZ format in LINUX? I need to write the creation date of a file say file1 in another file say file2 in given format. Help me to achieve this.
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Seconds, minutes and hours since a date
I would like to create a script that tells you how many seconds, minutes and hours have passed since a date (much like the +%s date command format). How can I subtract the current date with a specific ...
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How to remove only files created before a specific date and time
l would like to remove from my directory files which have been created before 04/29/2018 at 4:00 pm.
Thank you
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Prevent clock from advancing to a system time after Ubuntu Server build time
I have an Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 LTS in a lab environment where I need to set the date a couple of years back in time (e.g. 2016-04-22). I can set the older date/time without any issues but the OS ...
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How to show current timezone near time indicator in the menu bar?
How to show the current timezone near time and date in the menu bar in Ubuntu 16.10? This should be relevant for the other versions also.
It is a very missing feature, you can easily be confused ...
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How to make date show day/month/year in numbers instead of letters and words?
At the moment, this is how the date and clock looks like in Ubuntu's top bar:
In Estonian, "R" stands for "Reede" or "Friday", and "Juuli" means "July&...
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How can I change the default date format (using LC_TIME)?
How do I change the format of date command by modifying LC_TIME in locale?
Currently the day of month uses %e format. I need it to be displayed in %d format.
Below is the Current Format:
#date
Thu ...
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clock dissapeared from menu
As you can see from the screenshot, I am missing date and time from top menu. Is it stupid april fools joke or...?
I am clueless how to put it back. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT
Tried the ...
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How do I change to ISO 8601 date format? [duplicate]
I want to use the ISO 8601 date format system wide with Ubuntu 12.04. What is the best way to accomplish this?
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A command for KDE short date format
By the command
$date
the time and date of the system (according to local place) is printed. Is there a command that outputs Kde's short date format in terminal?
The date in KDE also depends on a ...
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How can I change the default date output format for the date command?
I've used RedHat servers before and now I've just installed Ubuntu Server.
I noticed that the date format in Ubuntu logs is different from in RedHat.
When I use the date command it showd
Wed May ...
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How can I change the en_AU locale to 12 hour format?
I've noticed that the en_AU locale is defaulting to 24 hour time, it should be 12 hour as this is most commonly used in Australia.
How can this be adjusted?
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Arabic numbers/dates showing in various places
I've just installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
I live in the Middle East, and so I set my country location (in the ME) and set my language to English (UK).
Although I'm now getting Arabic numbers and dates ...
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Overwrite FS properties with the EXIF props
I currently have some files that are working and displaying the correct properties from the FS. But some are showing incorrectly when trying to order by date. As the date is showing as "Unknown&...
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How do you prevent openvpn clients from changing the system clock?
I'm using state based routing using iptables and a single user on a shared machine sometimes uses a VPN to get resources not available in our physical location. However, this is very annoying because, ...
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date command output format
I have just installed ubuntu server 19.10. When I enter the date command I get the following output
Sun 10 Nov 2019 05:16:05 PM AEDT
My old server running 18.04 gives this output
Sun Nov 10 17:...
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Command inside another command - Bash
I know how to run a simple command inside another command, but in my case is special. My command contains " (date "+%Y-%m-%d").I need to display my log via 1 command.
If I do this date &...