gnome 3 desktop annoyance fixed: showing date

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

I've been running Fedora 15 on my desktop for a month or two.  I held off 
for months because I didn't like what I heard about the new desktop (or 
what I heard about Unity, the Ubuntu analogue).

I'm finding Gnome 3 mostly OK.  I don't find it an improvement over the 
Gnome 2 desktop, but I can live with it.  (I'm not a fan of running a 
distro's less-supported desktops, but that can be done.)

You don't get to customize much.  So, for instance, I cannot get a panel 
thingee to display CPU usage.

One thing that I missed is that the clock doesn't show the date (it does 
show the day of the week).  I looked around the GUI and could not see a 
way to change this.  At a FSOSS talk on the weekend, the speaker (a Ubuntu 
employee!) told me that there is a way to configure this -- just google.  
Well here is the link that worked for me: 
<http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=261961>

  $ gsettings set org.gnome.shell.clock show-date true

The same thread also has this:
	you can also do this graphically in gnome-tweak-tool
So I just installed it but saw nothing else that I wanted.
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