World Clock Calendar

Took me like 30 minutes to sort this out, hope these notes will help others. This is on Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon. 1. Right click the task bar and select "Panel edit mode". 2. Right click the task bar and select Applets > Download tab > search for "clock" > download "World Clock Calendar". Nothing happens. (Confusing!) Go back to the Manage tab, and scroll to the top, select World Clock Calendar, and click the "+" button at the bottom of the dialog to enable the applet. Not intuitive! 3. Click on the cog icon to open the settings for World Clock Calendar. Turn on "Use a custom date format". Then click "Configure World-clocks". Here's the most confusing part: The default value is "Coordinated Universal Time" and "UTC". This might mislead you into thinking you need to enter a UTC value in the Timezone column, like "Afghanistan UTC +04:30". Wrong! What you actually need to do is click the "Browse valid timezone values by country" link in that same dialog. It will open a web page. Find the time zone you want, and copy the value from the "Time Zone" column of the web page into the "Timezone" column of World Clock Calendar. You can write anything for the Display Name. So your entry in World Clock Calendar should look something like this: Afghanistan Asia/Kabul Repeat this for all the time zones you want. Super unintuitive! 4. Click Close, and close all the other related dialogs. In the task bar, you'll want to get rid of the default calendar because you have World Clock Calendar now, so click on that one and select "Remove ...". You can drag World Clock Calendar to a different location if you want. Right click on the task bar and click "Panel edit mode" again to complete the surgery. Grab a beer, that's enough work for today.

I would love to be able to make the taskbar displayed time the first "clock" selected in the world clock. Then I would have a local clock, and another time on the taskbar. With a hover to see others.

Total newbie here. Please explain what I need to do after downloading this.

This is great, thank you! (Mint 21.3) I currently have 6 timezones shown, and they're labeled *exactly* the way I need (instead of some imperfect default). Great configurability, thank you again! I also like the map that is currently only shown within the "Date and Time Settings" window; I would love it if that could be shown within the on-click popup? (Similar to how Mate does it in https://learnubuntumate.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/8/4/108446579/date-time002_orig.jpg ). Cheers!

Thank you for making this!! I've been using it in Mint 21.3 for a long time and just updated to Ubuntu 24.04 Cinnamon Edition, and am reporting that it works there as well. Would it be possible to create a Desklet for this?

Borders are too tight close to the text and doesn't looked properly designed in the frontend. Could anyone look into this?

Nice! Displays the correct time for the 10 different cities/countries I have in it.

I'm afraid I don't see the benefit since it still displays the local time instead of a different time zone unless you hover over it.

Works well, but t loads its own static/useless calendar, without any of the events from the system calendar or from Evolution. Had to remove.

In mint 21.1 new time zones do not get saved.

On mint 21.1, the "Time format for world clocks" doesn't get saved anymore. Surprisingly, in the app configuration, "use a custom date format" the time format is saved and used. But the format for the world cock isn't!

thanks

Is it possible to set it up so it displays the time from a different timezone on a task bar? Currently for me it displays the time from a timezone defined in a system despite having different "World-clock" defined in applet settings.

Couldn't the default calendar app somehow pull this World Clock feature? The new events functionality looks great, but would be great to have an app that can show both. Events and world clocks.

Just a cosmetic thing, but I noticed after upgrading to Linux Mint 20.3 with Cinnamon 5.2.7 that the borders are missing. There's no blank space around the content, the box just ends with one pixel around the text.

After switching from Ubuntu desktop to Cinnamon and installed the applet, the time and date don't update in the taskbar. On a second taskbar I have the default time applet and this works fine.

Am unable to locate a city under America/ under PST timezone !

Will this include the announced update of the original calendar app, showing the calendar events? https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4198

I'm having a problem adding locations. I can add the location but not the UVT related time. I'm unsure of how to get to the UVT column. If I just add spaces and UVT-n the display time is not calculated. I've tried tab, adding location only and then trying to add time - nothing works.

Very recently, the seconds (%S) stopped ticking. They get stuck on 00 and only minutes keep changing. Please investigate. Seen both on 19.3 and 20.1. Please investigate and fix, I use this every day.

This applet is BROKEN as hell. The time shown is ALWAYS WRONG (by 3 hours in my case). My system time is set to +3:00 (Europe/Minsk) according to geographical location and is synced with time servers. All network software works as expected, but no matter how I try to configure both this applet and the standard Cinnamon Calendar they keep showing the blasted unnecessary UTC instead of the correct local time. The World Clock applet can add the right timezone and even display the correct time BUT ONLY AS A TOOLTIP. The main panel clock is forever stack with UTC!!!

Perhaps you could add "Date and Time Settings" underneath the World Clocks, and honor those settings such as "Display the Date" and "Use 24hr Clock" as well for the World Clocks?

Nice applet... should be moved to Cinnamon as default!

Works great...very configurable. For setting my preference when adding additional locations, I use a simple format (12h)... %l:%M%p %a %b %e. There are several time format websites....this one is easy to follow: https://www.foragoodstrftime.com/ Also make sure to set the format in both the configure interface (just below the 'Use a custom date format' which need to be set to 'on'), and World-Clock settings. They do not synchronize, and may cause issues the next time you make a change.

Fantastic applet. I have been using this for more than two years on both Fedora and Mint and have never run into a problem. Thank you!

I was able to use the applet with Linux Mint 19. For future reference - this is the article that I've used: http://blog.softhints.com/linux-mint-19-display-time-zones/ It has a small setup explanation too.

I have not been able to edit/change world-clock items. If I add one, it puts in another entry for UTC, and I cannot change it to another time zone. Cannot find *ANY* documentation on configuring this applet.

I just recently upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04.3, running Cinnamon 3.6.7. The world clock applet time does not update at all, either on custom date or on default date, and I cannot add multiple timezones. When I first log in to Cinnamon, the time updates, but not after that. Any help or pointers in debugging would be appreciated!

It should pay attention to the 'Date format' string used by the primary clock. I use a 24-hour clock.

Simple and functional.

Is it possible to add World Clock twice with each clock in the panel showing a different time/timezone. I've tried adding two world clocks but each just shows the system time.

Very nice to have. Thanks. I can confirm that 24h time does not work on *panel*. The different time zones do work in 24h (%H). Also full date format in box is fixed at US format. eg "Wednesday October 25, 2017"

It's a great applet, but 2 things would do a great improving: 1. Don't use UTC as a default, since it's not clear that deleting this timezone, will allow to have access to suggestion box. I tried several times UTC+n without success until I discover I had to delete the UTC, and type the timezone. 2. Don't display the underscore, but keep it for storage for compatibility issues.

Use "%_H:%M (%a)" as the time format for 24h time.

Hi, I tried the new applet with Linux Mint 18.2 (beta) and it seems that it doesn't respect the system global Date & Time Settings (Use 24h clock). It still shows the time in 12h format in the panel! Thanks