Ubuntu – How to change the format of the date & time displayed in top panel

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By default date and time is displayed by the clock applet on the top right of the gnome desktop in Ubuntu. For me this displays something like "Tue Aug 3, 19:45". I would like to change it to make the date terser and to include e.g., ISO week number – to something like 03/08-19:45-W31.2

Is there anyway I can specify a "format string" for how the date-time is displayed ?

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Open gconf-editor by pressing Alt+F2 and typing gconf-editor
Navigate to apps -> panel -> applets.
Look for your applet. In my case it is called applet_3, on another computer its name is clock_0. Maybe a good way is to search (Strg+f or for US keyboards Ctrl+f, activate both fields in the search menu) for ClockApplet (case must match).
Go to prefs. Change the value of format to custom and change custom_format to whatever you like. The syntax comes from strftime().
The format will immediately change if you enter some values.

Note: This option will not work in 10.10's netbook edition, see this question for a solution.

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Ubuntu – How to adjust the Clock Indicator format

Try the following:

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime time-format "'custom'"
gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime custom-time-format "'%A, %d %B %Y, %I:%M:%S'"

That seems to do the trick for me. You should be able to do the same using dconf-editor.

In dconf editor, it'd be something like this:

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I believe those settings only apply to Unity; gnome shell seems to store its clock settings in org.gnome.desktop.interface, but only allows you to set whether to display seconds and/or the date.

I had a quick look on the extensions site, though, and this seems to do what you are wanting: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/795/format-clock/

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