How do I change the date format in Gnome 3 shell?
I want to change the date/time format on the top panel to a format close to RFC 3339 / ISO 8601, like one of these:
%F %T
→ 2013-06-24 16:13:00
%F %a %T
→ 2013-06-24 Mon 16:13:00
%A %F %T
→ Monday 2013-06-24 16:13:00
I know Unity has a preference somewhere hidden away in dconf, this is how I did it in Unity, but I can't find such a preference for Gnome 3 shell. Preferably, I'd also like to set one of these as my system-wide date/time locale preference.
Open a terminal and set
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-date true
YMMW - this did work for me on Fedora 19.
In addition to what Martin says, the following worked for me on Ubuntu 14.04, where dconf-editor didn't:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-date true
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-seconds true