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?
Solution 1:
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
Solution 2:
[To expand on what liberforce said]
- launch
gnome-tweak-tool, sometimes called Advanced Settings - click the Shell menu, then enable Show date in clock