Ubuntu – How to show the current year in Ubuntu’s Clock-indicator/applet

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For a long time, I've wanted to make Ubuntu 12.04's clock show the current year; I like it to show up in my screen-shots.

However, there is no gui configuration for doing this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/465689

Does anyone know how I might change this in some configuration file or something?

Best Answer

With due respect to the answer helping me figure out, let's customize the indicator-datetime.

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime time-format "'custom'"
gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime custom-time-format "'%a, %d. %h  %H:%M %Y'"

That would give an output of "Mon, 02, Jul 21:00 2012".

You can customize the format as long as they are understood by strftime. For other formats, you can consult the manpage for the strftime command Manpage icon and customize accordingly.

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