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jhpratt
Asked: 2017-12-06 17:14:17 +0800 CST

Additional time zones in status bar [duplicate]

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Is it possible to have one or more extra TZs in the status bar, as I'd asked here (that was for Unity, though, so it's not a dupe).

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  1. Best Answer

    A half-baked solution is to use a GNOME shell extension called MultiClock. Its limitations are:

    • Only one extra clock
    • Very limited number of time-zones to choose from (more can be added editing its source, see below)

    This extension depends on the gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 package, install it first (if not installed already) by running

    sudo apt install gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0

    How to install the extension

    You can install the extension by clicking on the ON/OFF toggle in this webpage (you may have to install the chrome-gnome-shell package and a browser add-on/extension suggested by the webpage first).

    How to add more time-zones for selection

    1. Open the ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js file with a text-editor, for example run

      gedit ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js

    2. In the Timezones section (line number 22) add your preferred time-zone following the format of the default ones, e.g.

      'UTC': { hr: 0, min: 0, tzname: 'UTC' },

      (Google the correct tzname for your preferred time-zone)

    3. Save the file.

    4. Log out and log in again.

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