Comment 6 for bug 913810

Gerry, you can customize the Panel's display of the date & time. What you need to do is download "dconf-tools" and install it. Then open dconf-editor and navigate to:

com > canonical > indicator > datetime

change the line that says "time-format" to "custom"

on the line at the top that says "custom-time-format" type this out: %a %e %h %H:%M

Logout and then back in and it should display how you want.