How can I show the date in the gnome 3 menubar?

Gnome 3 has a menu bar that includes the day of the week and the time. The date and time settings allow the time to be shown in 24 hour or AM/PM style.

There do not appear, however, to be any options for displaying the date. Instead of "Thu 1:59 PM", I'd like it to read (for example) "1:59 PM, Thursday, March 28, 2013".

How can I configure the format of the date in the menu bar?

Jason Owen

Posted 2013-03-28T21:01:45.210

Reputation: 490

Answers

You can use dconf-editor to change many of the settings (GSettings) on your GNOME desktop environment. For this case you need to install the dconf-tools package. Run dconf-editor and find the appropriate key for your time settings.

e.g. org.gnome.desktop.interface.clock-show-date

Chance Snow

Posted 2013-03-28T21:01:45.210

Reputation: 396

1@liberforce you have a typo: it is gnome-tweak-tool and thanks – mau – 2015-11-19T00:39:01.160

2Too bad the nice people of Gnome didn't put this setting in the UI. It's the date I need to glance to once in a while, I usually know what day it is. – Bart Friederichs – 2013-11-18T08:35:34.373

5Previously this was provided by the org.gnome.shell.clock.show-date key but has changed around GNOME 3.6. This may be changed graphically using the gnome-teak-tool UI, too. – liberforce – 2013-11-22T16:33:20.087

[To expand on what liberforce said]

launch gnome-tweak-tool, sometimes called Advanced Settings
click the Shell menu, then enable Show date in clock

Nathan Kidd

Posted 2013-03-28T21:01:45.210

Reputation: 363

I think it might be called gnome-tweak now. – Nicholas DiPiazza – 2019-11-10T23:32:22.723

In GNOME 3.28.2, this setting made the date show up in the top bar:

/org/gnome/desktop/interface/clock-show-date

Matthias

Posted 2013-03-28T21:01:45.210

Reputation: 101

The gnome-tweak-tool works (the dconf-editor does not) debian 7(wheezy) ... however now the box is too narrow to display the time ... sigh

Turns out this is a "real-estate" issue , I used https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/112/remove-accesibility/ to recover a small bit of space, now I can see date AND time

GremeV

Posted 2013-03-28T21:01:45.210

Reputation: 1

-1

I use GNOME Flashback. The path to the relevant settings in dconf-editor is /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/:

Miłosz Łakomy

Posted 2013-03-28T21:01:45.210

Reputation: 99