xfce4-datetime-plugin shows the date and time in the panel; when left-clicked, a popup calendar appears.

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The original plugin was written by Choe Hwanjin. Remco den Breeje wrote the 0.4.x and 0.5.0 versions. Diego Ongaro was the maintainer from 2008 to 2010.

• Install the datetime package in the usual way for your distribution, or get the source and run ./configure, make, make install.
• Right-click the Xfce panel > Add New Item > DateTime
  • See Add the plugin to the panel for more details

To open the calendar, simply left-click the plugin on your panel. Left-click on it again to close the calendar.

Note: The information on which day the calendar week starts is derived from the locale.

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To open the properties dialog, right-click the plugin on your panel and select Properties.

The properties dialog allows you to use a "Custom" format string for your date or time options. The format string you enter should be compatible with strftime. Here are some format string specifiers from the "date" command's help:

%% a literal %
%a locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
%A locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
%b locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
%B locale's full month name (e.g., January)
%c locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005)
%C century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 21)
%d day of month (e.g, 01)
%D date; same as %m/%d/%y
%e day of month, space padded; same as %_d
%F full date; same as %Y-%m-%d
%g last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)
%G year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V
%h same as %b
%H hour (00..23)
%I hour (01..12)
%j day of year (001..366)
%k hour ( 0..23)
%l hour ( 1..12)
%m month (01..12)
%M minute (00..59)
%n a newline
%p locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known
%P like %p, but lower case
%r locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)
%R 24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M
%s seconds since 1970年01月01日 00:00:00 UTC
%S second (00..60)
%t a tab
%T time; same as %H:%M:%S
%u day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday
%U week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%V ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
%w day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
%W week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%x locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
%X locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)
%y last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y year
%z +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)
%Z alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)

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• xfce4-datetime-plugin 0.8.3 released (2023年01月16日 22:19)

Read the CHANGELOG

• Download current release (older versions of this component are also available here)

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https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-datetime-plugin

• Reporting Bugs – List of currently open bugs and instructions on how to submit new bug reports

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