How do we configure the panel clock in 21.04

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> on Tue, 27 Apr 2021
13:58:27 +0800

> On 27/04/2021, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have UbuntuMATE 21.04 running.
> >
> > The panel clock does not display either the date, or, the seconds
> > component of the time, and, I can not find how to configure the panel
> > clock so that it displays these two components.
> >
> > How do I configure the clock in the panel, to display the date
> > (weekday monthday month) and the seconds component of the time?
> >
> > In 20.10, by clicking on the clock, with the non-dominant ,mouse
> > button, then selecting Preferences, in the General tab, is
> >
> > "Clock Preferences" - Title bar
> >
> > "
> > Clock Format
> > () 12 hour format    ()24 hour format
> >
> > Panel Display
> > () Show the date
> > () Show seconds
> > () Show week numbers in calendar
> > () Show weather
> > () Show temperature
> > "
> >
> > But, all of this is missing, from the 21.04 panel clock.
> >
> > Thank you in anticipation.
> >
> 
> I have kind of figured it out.
> 
> The panel clock, which is the clock that is automatically installed in
> the panel, upon system installation, is a component of the applet
> "Indicator Applet Complete", in which, the clock component is
> minimalist, and can not be configured.
> 
> What I have on the 20.10 system that is running, in the same position
> in the panel, is the applet "Clock", which was apparently added to the
> panel, in a reincarnation of the operating system; either during the
> life of the current version, or, in a previous lifetime, in a previous
> version, before the version upgrade to the 20.10 version.
> 
> So, whilst the Clock applet would be a more useful component of the
> "Indicator Applet Complete", with the configurability of the Clock
> applet, than the unconfigurable (well, to the same extent) clock
> component of the "Indicator Applet Complete", at this stage, it
> appears that the only way to have a clock in the panel, that has the
> configurability of the Clock applet, is to add the Clock applet to the
> panel, to be there in addition to the clock component of the Indicator
> Applet Complete, so, having two clocks in the panel.
> 

Use "gsettings".  I do not know all the parameters but here is the only one I
use:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-seconds true

-- 
Robert Blair


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