Time/Date shell-thingy in F18

[William Murray]

    Dear list,
     (What do we call the shell thingies which replaced applets?)

I wanted to have the date at the top of my shiny new FC18 screen, not 
just the time.
I installed dconf-editor, went to org->gome->shell and found 'calendar' 
and 'clock'
each of which have booleans, one for 'show-weekdate' and the other for 
'show-date'
As far as I can tell these do nothing at all. I toggle and log in/out or 
reboot but no
date appears.
   This morning, with the new kernel, my system when into gnome 2 
fallback mode.
Ah-hah! I siezed the opportunity of a 'preferences' menu on the clock, 
switched
on the date, and rebooted - perfect; gnome 3, plus date.
     So I am happy....but there MUST be a better way to switch this on 
and of?
      Bill




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