How do we configure the panel clock in 21.04

[Francis Grizzly Smit]

I just use the "Clock Override" by .ext lets you control everything 
using strftime format stuff just go to 
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1206/clock-override/


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On 27/04/2021 16:42, Bob wrote:
> ** 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
>
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