Questions tagged [clock]
Questions related to clock application, services provided by system or other clock apps.
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Customizing tray/taskbar date display in Ubuntu with GNOME 3
On previous versions I had the date displayed. Now it just shows the current day but not the day's number or the month.
Is there a way to customize the clock or tray/taskbar more in GNOME shell on ...
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How to show seconds on the clock in GNOME 3?
Is it possible to show the seconds on the clock in GNOME 3?
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Upgraded to 13.10 now clock settings are all disabled and clock does not display
I've upgraded to 13.10 and now I don't have the standard menu clock, which I need for work.
I checked and 'indicator-datetime' is installed. I even uninstalled/reinstalled that applet with no luck.
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Alarm clock for Ubuntu
Looking for a Alarm Clock for Ubuntu with following:
Repeat an alarm after user defined period of time
Can be paused
Can be reset
Shows a visual indication at alarm time
Visual indication should ...
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Clocks for multiple timezones in GNOME Shell
I looked everywhere but I couldn't find a way to display multiple clocks in GNOME 3. In classic GNOME and Unity, it is possible. Also, for some strange reason, additional timezones cannot be added to ...
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How do I move clock to the right end of GNOME 3 Panel from the middle?
How do I move the clock to the right of the panel in Ubuntu GNOME?
In other words, I want the clock to be in the same place as in Ubuntu Unity 16.04.
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How to get world clocks to show on the task bar in Ubuntu 18.04
I make extensive use of the multiple timezone clock feature in 16.04.
After upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 I found various guides that installing GNOME Clocks and adding time zones I should see them in ...
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In Ubuntu 17.10 and later how do I change the clock to a 12 hour format?
In Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME, how do I change the clock to a 12 hour format? And maybe for a more difficult rhetorical question, why does Ubuntu feel compelled to hide such basic functionality?
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How do you get an hourly talking clock?
I want to get a program (a script that can be set to auto-start or something) that tells you every hour like "It's 11 o'clock."
I know it's easy on Macs, but how do you get that on Precise?
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How to show seconds on the clock in 22.04 LTS (Gnome) [duplicate]
Is there a way to get the clock (top bar) to show seconds?
I looked in the Time & Date settings tab, but there is still nothing for seconds there.
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XFCE Panel Clock Disappears
Like it says in the title. Fresh XFCE install over Ubuntu. Whenever I try to change the clock format through Right-Click>Panel>Preferences, the clock disappears as soon as I close the window. I have ...
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What units does the ntp drift file use?
When the ntpd daemon is running, the file: /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift gets updated periodically. Example:
17:20 hostname 118 ~> ls -l /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
-rw-r--r-- 1 ntp ntp 7 May 20 16:46 /var/...
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Clock settings are disabled from Time & Date Settings [closed]
In my time & Date settings clock settings seems to be disable. Which default package is missing on my system ?
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Ubuntu 19.10 Multiple Timezone clocks [duplicate]
How do I add multiple clocks with different time zones in Ubuntu 19.10.
Solution:
Install clock using sudo apt install gnome-clocks
Open Clock app and add required timezones
Restart the PC
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How do I adjust the Clock Indicator format?
Recently I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04. The clock indicator on the panel is not following my regional settings format.
I edited locales and in all applications I have the right format of date and time ...
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How do I reload the clock applet?
It seems I am running this bug. Sometimes my clock applet just stops running, and I have a pop-up window saying 'The clock has quit unexpectedly'. Between 'Reload' and 'Close', I have unfortunately ...
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How to display custom formatted clock in top bar on multiple displays in Ubuntu 18.04?
I have a pretty specific problem, that I have had no luck trying to find a working solution to. I have a laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 docked using 2 external monitors resulting in 3 screens. I want to ...
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Show *year* on Ubuntu 20.04 top bar
As far as I can tell, there are no tweaks for showing the year on the top bar clock in Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). I find it for < 20.04, but I can't find a suitable solution for Ubuntu 20.04.
Our ...
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How can I get a world clock indicator?
I am now running Ubuntu 11.04, but I remember that in previous versions of Ubuntu you had an interesting functionality in the clock indicator. You could see how late it was in some places in the world ...
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How to force an immediate clock/time synchronization/ntp update in 16.04?
It seems like the documentation at the LTS server guide and and community wiki may not have been updated for 16.04 yet. A figure in in the community wiki page shows a 'synchronize now' button but I ...
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Clock drift even though NTPD running
I'm having a problem with the clock drifting on my PC. I'M running
Ubuntu 10.10 on an somewhat crusty IBM e-server (1.5GB RAM, 2.4GHz CPU)
ntpd is running (started at run level 2)
servers are defined:...
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Strange 'beep-beep' alarm each day at noon
since I've upgraded to 20.04 last month, I keep hearing a double beep X6 times (like an alarm clock) each day exactly at 12:00.
I didn't install any alarm programs recently and I'm pretty sure the ...
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The time on the clock is wrong ubuntu 14.04
I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 on my Lenovo G50-70 yesterday, removing windows 10. When I boot up the machine, the clock was showing the wrong time, even though the timezone was correct. ...
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How do I put a clock on the desktop background on Ubuntu 19.04, gnome
How do I put a clock on the desktop background on Ubuntu 19.04 GNOME
Is there maybe an extension that I am not finding?
I have google all I think is relevant.
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How do I make the clock stop chiming every hour on the hour?
I'm using a fully updated 11.10 install. After I installed the gnome-shell 3.2 package the clock started chiming every hour (it sounds like a doorbell). If I'm listening to something that needs to ...
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Indicator Applet: How to get rid of the clock?
There are currently 2 clocks on my panel: one in the "Indicator Applet" and one in the "Clock". The one in the "Indicator Applet" is redundant and isn't as good as the "Clock".
Does anyone know ...
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Why do my clock, indicator applets, and notification area sometimes move around when I restart? How can I prevent that?
I have all of them locked to the panel, but they keep moving around upon logging out and back in. So, for example, sometimes the Indicator Applet Session is farthest to the right, but sometimes the ...
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How do I move the clock in GNOME Classic?
The clock in the middle is driving me batty and I can't get it to move to the right side of the screen where I would like it. No other log in works for me except GNOME Classic so I'm sticking with ...
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Binary clock for top menu bar - Ubuntu 16.04
As the title ambiguously suggests, I am looking for a binary clock for the top menu bar, similar to what is available for Xfce and Gnome desktops.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance ...
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How to change time display to 12h time format in Ubuntu
I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 and I have the following issue:
I tried to change the date on the top panel to 12h format instead of the default 24h format but I found no editable option into settings ...
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Ubuntu inside virtual machine: ntpd or ntpdate or ??? to avoid clock drift
Problem: ntpd, when installed on a virtual machine running Ubuntu (I've had this on hosts with a variety of hypervisors such as KVM and VMware ESX) seem to be prone to severe clock drift. I haven't ...
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How can I set the clock to 24 hour mode? [closed]
How can I set the clock to global (24h time) in Maverick instead of am/pm? Including the login screen?
I mean there's no option to do that in rclick clock > preferences or in system > admin > time &...
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How to bring the clock back to the center in gnome-shell?
I am using Gnome-shell on Ubuntu 11.10.
For some reason, after I added the usual extensions (Weather Indicator, System Monitor etc) the clock moved to the right - I did not install an extension for ...
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How to add additional clock in Ubuntu 18.04? [duplicate]
It was quite simple in Ubuntu 16.04 to add additional clock from different time zone. But I am not sure how to add in 18.04, I checked the settings but it doesn't have any options. Any suggestions?
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How do I add missing cities for the other locations on the time & date clock?
I want to add 'Amsterdam' and 'San Francisco' to my "Time in other locations" setting on the clock, but those cities seem to be missing. What is wrong? How do I add them?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
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How can I force Ubuntu to use the BIOS internal clock instead of NTP or whatever its being used?
My clock starts running out of sync in Ubuntu which doesn't happen in Windows. The problem is that it just starts losing time after a moment of syncing it with an NTP server, that means the clock is ...
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How can I custom format the top bar clock in Ubuntu 20.04 without extensions?
I wanted to format the clock without the use of extensions...
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Is it possible to put the clock on the launcher bar if its at the bottom? The old windows style basically?
See image. The launcher (Ubuntu dock) is on the bottom of the screen. I'm looking to add the clock to that location.
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Clock stops ticking when inactive, causing drift
The clock applet drifts in time.
Clock is set to "synchronize with internet ..." so it is correct at startup, but then if I stay inactive for some time, may be 5 min as well as 1 hour, the clock stops ...
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How does the clock keep on track after a period of the machine being off? [closed]
It just struck me, when I shut down my machine and then boot it up again later, how does it know what the date and time is without checking with its servers (which it does also check with when there ...
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Removing clock from the lock-screen
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.
I want to remove the digital clock from the lock screen because I just want to see a good wallpaper there, unobstructed.
How do I go about this?
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No way to show seconds in Gnome Classic clock
I cannot force clock in Gnome Classic to show seconds.
Tried within dconf-editor, changing all available clock settings:
com > canonical > indicatior > datetime
There I was trying by changing custom-...
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Update time for daylight savings time, set system clock to UTC time, and stay in sync with online server
My two Ubuntu desktops updated their time for daylight savings time but my laptop did not. I am not sure the difference. They are all set to get their time "Automatically from the Internet" and are ...
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Ubuntu System time is slow/behind
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 on my Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pro laptop.
The system clock keeps on falling behind. I set it to the correct time, but it slows down and speeds up sporadically.
Can I fix this?...
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World Clock in gnome-shell [duplicate]
Is there any shell extension which will enable Ubuntu 11.10 gnome-shell
users to view time at different locations ?
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How to remove clock from panel in gnome-shell?
How to remove clock from the top panel in gnome-shell?
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How do I disable the calendar events section in GNOME Shell's clock applet?
I'm running gnome-shell 3.2.0 and when I click the clock applet in the middle of the top panel, the following shows up:
I have no need for the entire right part, right of the dotted line, which is ...
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kde clock format: how to include the day in a non-tiny font?
I'm using KDE on Kubuntu 15.04.
I want my taskbar clock to look like this:
Sun 19 15:11
(or AM/PM would be ok, main thing is Day / Date in the same font size as the time. I don't need my computer ...
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Gnome shell inverted clock
Here is how the clock appears in my gnome shell:
Even though I'm using the Arabic language, this is not how the clock should be displayed.
Previously, it worked well but now I don't know what ...
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Menu bar shows the word "Time" where current time should be
I just upgraded from 10.10 to 12.04. A picture says a thousand words in this case. Here's a G+ post with a screenshot of my menu bar:
I've tried messing with the clock settings---specifying a time ...
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