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I recently upgraded from 12.04 to 14.10 (had to first upgrade to a prior
14.?? version first), and then later on to 15.04 (see below). On the far
right-side of the top bar of the graphical screen, I previously had
displayed the date & time, weekday, and date/month (without clicking on
it and it displaying the full calendar). With the upgrade most of that
is now gone and I can only see the time on the menu bar. If I go into
System Settings --> Time & Date -- Clock, I see that in the "In the
clock, show:" grouping of properties "Weekday" and "Date and month" are
unchecked. Towards the top the "Show a clock in the menu bar" is
checked, and I also have "12-hour time" checked.

I want the "Weekday" and "Date and month" checked so that they will show
on the menu bar, but when I check either or both of them, the clock goes
away right then -- that is, it doesn't show the time that it was showing
just moments ago, nor does it display anything about the date or time.
As soon as I uncheck both "Weekday" and "Date and month" the time will
show right back up, with no delay.

I have updated/upgraded/reinstalled indicator-datetime, removed it and
installed it again, "dpkg-reconfigure" the package, each time doing a
"killall unity-panel-service" to restart the service, and even rebooted
some times.

Nothing seems to help -- If one of those 2 settings (or both) are
checked all date/time settings go away on the menu bar.

The above is for my regular login account.  I created a "Guest Session",
of which it creates a temporary login in /tmp, and saw that it deleted
it when I logged out of it.  It did the same as my normal log ID did --
that is, only the time showed up on the menu bar, and when I went to
clock settings and changed the "Weekday" / "Date & Month" settings, the
clock disappeared.

I did a fresh install of ubuntu 14.10 on another machine after I did
this upgrade. The fresh install was on a Win computer that I resized the
Win partition on. It does the same thing as the upgrade I talked about
above.

I first posed the above as a question, and no one was able to help me,
and they said I probably should report a bug, but I might want to wait
until 15.04 was released and I upgraded.  I have now upgraded to 15.04
on both of my computers, and they still do the same thing.

I have encountered another problem with the "Time & Date Settings".  I
have my location set up as "Chicago".  I noticed that when you go into
the "Clock" tab, you can set up additional "Locations".  I set up an
additional location for "UTC".  Both of these times display when you
click on the clock on the top menu bar and it pops up the Calendar.
They display at the bottom. It works fine for most of the time.  "UTC"
is (now) 5 hours ahead of "Chicago" time.  When "Chicago" time reads
18:59 UTC reads 23.59.  "Chicago" clicks over to 19:00 and "UTC" clicks
over to the next day, the "UTC" time then disappears.  I take it that it
disappears until "Chicago" time clicks over to the next day, so that
"Chicago" and "UTC" are then on the same day again.

** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


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Week day and Date & Month not working on menu bar on upgrade to 14.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1449794
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