Re: showing the date on the gnome3 "top bar"

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb nyu edu>]

On Wed, Jan 25 2012, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> On 01/25/2012 01:12 AM, Jiro Matsuzawa wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Allan Gottlieb<gottlieb nyu edu>  wrote:
>>
>>> I have gnome3 running on two machines and am quite happy with it.
>>>
>>> Somehow on one machine, when I am logged in, the center of the top bar
>>> has the time with the day of the week, e.g.,
>>>
>>>                   Tue 11:56 PM
>>>
>>> The other includes the date as well, something like
>>>
>>>                  Tue jan 24, 11:56 PM
>>>
>>> I prefer the latter but can not find the button to press to change the
>>> format.  I have clicked all over "date and time settings".
>>>
>>> thanks in advance,
>>> allan
>>
>> Hi Allan,
>> You can change the format by use of gnome-tweak-tool.
>>
>> 1) run gnome-tweak-tool.
>> 2) open the "Shell" menu on the tool.
>> 3) switch on "Show date in clock".
>
> But this only seems to work for your session.  When you lock your
> system or before you login, it will be the weekday/time format.
>
> I have not found a way to change that.
>
> Plus sometimes Gnome looses its place in reality and you may see the
> weekday/time back on your top panel.  To remind Gnome what its relaity
> is suppose to be, you can restart it with <alt-F2>r
>
> At least this is what is happening on my system.  Rather a pain overall.
>
Thank you both,
allan