The Ubuntu Journeyman

Restoring a Missing Date and Time Indicator

The little date and time indicator vanished from the top panel of the screen. This is what I did to get it back.

I made sure all elements of it were still installed (in case anything had borked any of the required files).

sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime

I issued the following command to reconfigure the date and time timezone data through dpkg.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure –frontend noninteractive tzdata

Finally I restarted Unity.

sudo killall unity-panel-service

That was it. Short and sweet.