I need to learn how to use dconf.
I want to add the year to my panel. As it is now, it only shows month and day.
I did a search for a tutorial, but did not find any.
dconf looks kinda complex. 
I don’t know of a tutorial, but one point that may help with searching: dconf is the back end and gsettings is the front end. You can interact with dconf directly, and sometimes you may need to, but usually using gsettings is the way to go. (I believe gsettings also can use other back ends, like on Windows or Mac.)
Dconf-editor is a gui tool that can a nice way to explore, and modify settings, since you can see all the options available.
As for the date on your panel, here is a howto for custom clock formats. The thing that’s easy to miss is that you both need to change the custom format and change the clock to use the custom format instead of one of the present ones.
Changed it to
%a %d %b %Y %H:%M
Still no century?
You can try with "%YYYY"
I have the full year in my panel... I'm out of town, but I can check my config later this week.
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Be sure and set format to custom. That should show 2018.
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Thanks for the help when you get back.
Be sure and set format to custom. That should show 2018.
Could you post a screenshot of what that is?
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