Date format in GNOME 40 panel clock

[Tom H]

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:59 AM Frank Vanoni
<mailinglist at linuxista.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2021-05-09 at 23:00 +0200, Tom H wrote:


>> If you use "gnome-tweaks", you can add "Weekday", "Date", and
>> "Seconds" via the "Top Bar" tab.
>
> Yes, I have these options. But I can't find any way to modify the
> date format. Instead of "May 10" I want "10 May" or, even better,
> the ISO format "2021-05-10".

Are you using the right locale?

If you are, you can set "LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8" (or any other european
locale) in "/etc/environment" to use a non-US date format.


>> There might be an extension that allows you to format the clock.
>
> Yes, I found several extensions that allows to customize the time
> and date format. Unfortunately, only for GNOME 3.x, nothing for
> GNOME 40.
>
> By the way, I wonder why an extension is needed. Changing the time
> and date format should be something straightforward to do.

The Gnome devs prefer to limit the number of settable options...