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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?

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Reset to default
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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

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    Too bad the nice people of Gnome didn't put this setting in the UI. It's the date I need to glance to once in a while, I usually know what day it is.
    – Bart Friederichs
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 8:35
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    Previously this was provided by the org.gnome.shell.clock.show-date key but has changed around GNOME 3.6. This may be changed graphically using the gnome-teak-tool UI, too.
    – liberforce
    Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 16:33
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    @liberforce you have a typo: it is gnome-tweak-tool and thanks
    – mau
    Commented Nov 19, 2015 at 0:39
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[To expand on what liberforce said]

  1. launch gnome-tweak-tool, sometimes called Advanced Settings
  2. click the Shell menu, then enable Show date in clock
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  • I think it might be called gnome-tweak now.
    – Nicholas DiPiazza
    Commented Nov 10, 2019 at 23:32
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The gnome-tweak-tool works (the dconf-editor does not) debian 7(wheezy) ... however now the box is too narrow to display the time ... sigh

Turns out this is a "real-estate" issue , I used https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/112/remove-accesibility/ to recover a small bit of space, now I can see date AND time

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Activities -> Show Applications -> Tweaks

This program was preinstalled on my Debian installation.

Select Top Bar in the left menu. Then enable date.

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In GNOME 3.28.2, this setting made the date show up in the top bar:

/org/gnome/desktop/interface/clock-show-date
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I use GNOME Flashback. The path to the relevant settings in dconf-editor is /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/: enter image description here

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