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ljbade
Asked: 2018-08-31 20:16:35 +0800 CST

How to get world clocks to show on the task bar in Ubuntu 18.04

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I make extensive use of the multiple timezone clock feature in 16.04.

After upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 I found various guides that installing GNOME Clocks and adding time zones I should see them in the dropdown when I click the clock on the taskbar.

However it isn't showing up in there, despite restarting a few times.

I also installed GNOME Weather and its section shows now in the clock dropdown.

Has anyone else had this problem? Ideas on how to fix this?

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2 Answers

  1. GNOME Clocks should work fine if it's set up correctly. However, if you have installed the application from the (GNOME) Software application, there is a chance that you have installed the snap version of Clocks. You can verify that by running snap list and checking whether the output contains gnome-clocks.

    If that is the case, this behaviour is not very surprising given the security restrictions of snap packages. To fix this remove the snap application by running

    snap remove gnome-clocks

    and install the traditional one by running

    sudo apt install gnome-clocks

    Then you should be able to find added time zones in the date & time dropdown tray (N.B. You may have to log out and back in).

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  2. @pomsky answer (replacing snap package with apt package) works for me as well. In addition, I also like to use gnome extension panel-world-clock-lite to make it always visible on the task bar:

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    EDIT:

    To install it:

    1. Install Gnome Clocks and Gnome Tweak Tool

      sudo apt install gnome-clocks

      sudo apt-add-repository universe

      sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool

    2. Install panel-world-clock-lite

    3. Open Gnome Clocks and add timezones to be shown

    4. Open Gnome Tweak and enable "Panel World Clock" extension

    5. Reboot your computer

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