Menu Bar Time Disappeared

Question

Hello can anyone help me, my time on the menu bar has disappeared, one day I noticed it was gone, in system settings I do not have a time and date option either.

I am running Ubuntu 12.04, please help

Solution 1

For me, this make the clock, time, date come back to menu bar: killall unity-panel-service

Solution 2

I just had this problem while I was also dealing with another bug to do with my keyboard layout changing spontaneously, and the fix for that also brought back my time and date display.

Try the following command:

sudo restart lightdm

Seemed to work for me, anyway. Hope this helps.

Solution 3

You need to add the panel "indicator" for date and time back by running:

sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime

That will restore the time readout on the top panel for you.

Solution 4

As someone pointed out, I typed:

initctl restart indicator-datetime

and it worked fine.

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Comments

[hajimuz]

try initctl restart indicator-datetime,it will help restart the datetime indicator service.

[Joe]

@Momo mind turning this into an answer? This was the solution I ended up using and it worked fine. Ubuntu 14.10.

[Trey Hunner]

Note that this will restart your current X session so all of your running programs will be terminated. You'll probably want to close everything you're working on before running this.

[cytsunny]

I have tried that in ubuntu 14.04 and it works too.