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Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to have some information in the mode line, in my case the
> time showed by display-time, to be at all the way to the right of the
> mode line?

Try something like

  (display-time)
  (setq global-mode-string (remove 'display-time-string global-mode-string))
  (setq mode-line-end-spaces
        (list (propertize " " 'display '(space :align-to (- right 12)))
              'display-time-string))