As far as I can tell, there are no tweaks for showing the year on the top bar clock in Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). I find it for < 20.04, but I can't find a suitable solution for Ubuntu 20.04.
Our service frequently needs to take screenshots identifying the year of a screenshot and the Ubuntu clock only believes in hour minute seconds date and day of week. That doesn't help people who need to record the year in a screenshot.
I have a pretty specific problem, that I have had no luck trying to find a working solution to. I have a laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 docked using 2 external monitors resulting in 3 screens. I want to have my top bar on all 3 screens to easily look up on the current screen to see the time. I enable this using the Multi Monitors Add-On Gnome extension. I am running Ubuntu in English, but set to Swedish formats. This makes for a very ugly and incorrect date format in the top bar.
This is pretty much English format with Swedish names for days and months. On a side note, this localization "bug" has been fixed and is ready for an upcoming gnome release.
My main issue is that I want to change the format of the date displayed to something like:
I can easily get this format using any of the many clock formatting Gnome extensions (Clock Override, Datetime Format). However, none of these extensions work with my Multi Monitors Add-On, leaving me with a nicely formatted clock on the main monitor, but ugly formatted clocks on the other two screens. I have tried getting the developers of these addons to collaborate, but apparently dependencies between gnome extensions is "hell".
I have also tried editing the locale files directly, both the en_US and sv_SE. Specifically the LC_TIME d_t_fmt format for date and time strings, but this seems to have no impact on the clock format.
In a last attempt I also unpacked the libgnome-shell.so file located in /usr/lib/gnome-shell/ to try and edit the JavaScript files used to display the clock, using this answer. I had a look in dateMenu.js and calendar.js and changed most of the format strings that I could find to my desired format %Y-%m-%d. I then ran GNOME_SHELL_JS=$HOME/gnome-shell-js gnome-shell --replace, but again it seemed to have no effect. To be fair, I am in deep waters here and could definitely have failed in my attempts. As such, the solution could still be in this method.
Have anyone had any experience with a situation like this? Changing the format of date and time displayed on multiple monitors using Ubuntu 18.04? Feel free to try what I have tried already as I can certainly have missed something that could have made it work.
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?
I am now running Ubuntu 11.04, but I remember that in previous versions of Ubuntu you had an interesting functionality in the clock indicator. You could see how late it was in some places in the world different from your current one. This was associated with a world map showing where it was day and where it was not.
How can I get this functionality back in the clock indicator ? Otherwise, do you advice me another solution to know easily how late it is in some special places ?
Recently I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04. The clock indicator on the panel is not following my regional settings format.
I edited locales and in all applications I have the right format of date and time except clock indicator on the panel. Tried dconfig editor but keys for clock applet cannot be changed. Tried to purge indicator and reinstall it - still the same. Is there any way that
I could change formatting of datetime indicator?
%A, %d %B %Y, %I:%M:%S%a%B%d %H:%M:%S