Happy iCal Day

[firestarter]

...from London. :)

[lamadude]

Wooohooo here as well!
(Belgium)

wow: you really posted that at midnight right? (1 AM in Belgium should be midnight in London)
That's.... scary, hope you didn't stay awake just to post that ;-)

[firestarter]

That's.... scary, hope you didn't stay awake just to post that ;-)

:cool: Nope! Just surfing and realised :)

[Doctor Q]

Sniff. It's still the 16th here for many more hours. I'm quite jealous. :(

[twoodcc]

what is ical day? oh wait, the date on the ical icon?

[WildCowboy]

what is ical day? oh wait, the date on the ical icon?

Yep...it was announced at MacWorld NY on July 17th, 2002, so it's now five years old!

[flyfish29]

Yep...it was announced at MacWorld NY on July 17th, 2002, so it's now five years old!

Wow, five years- and they still have quite a ways to go for a real calendar and to do program!!! I like iCal (it runs my life some days), but there are still many issues and features missing! :mad:

[L`-]

Is there also a reason why iCal says July 17 yet today is the 16 and it only changes to the 16th on the icon when I click on it. But when I quit iCal it reverts back to the 17th.

I live in the EST time zone

[WildCowboy]

July 17th is what the default icon says whenever the app is closed. When you open it, it displays the correct day.

It would be nice if it always displayed the correct date, but that would require something to be running in the background all the time in order to monitor the icon being displayed.

[zub3qin]

Today is July 17th, AKA the date that is ALWAYS displayed on your iCal icon in the dock.

So rejoice one and all. Exciting things should happen to your mac today!

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[jessica.]

Well thank you. :)

[gr8tfly]

At least we don't have to wait a year for iPhone clock hour - it happens twice a day! Too funny.

Probably would have never noticed, if it wasn't for the comic. Thanks. (I think...)

[Royale w/cheese]

Ha, never realized that.

[ivnds]

my first ical day and my macbook is getting repaired! aw :(

[siurpeeman]

if one never quits, does that make every day ical day?

[polycat33]

There's a program you can get to make it always show the current day, and you can also change the color of the calendar, but it's kinda silly to get a program to do just those two little things.

[davidtmarquez]

Happy iCal day from the Philippines! :)

[Jostifer]

Happy iCal day from Norway :)

[djstarrock]

Yay all we need is some iCake.

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[xUKHCx]

Not really much of an article, just saying that iCal is 5 years old today. Which is good but you would've thought that in 5 years of development they could have found a way of enabling it to show the correct date in the dock without having to open up the program.

[Doctor Q]

Sniff. It's still the 16th here for many more hours.Thank you for all the sympathy cards and letters. I feel much better now, since it's now the 17th! :)

[tobefirst]

Hooray!

I never would have noticed if it weren't for this thread (and, well, the other one from yesterday). I have iCal running all the time on my machine. Maybe I should set up a recurring event to remind me every year!

[iZac]

hooray, the ONLY day my iCal icon is accurate!

[Peace]

It's an icon.An image.In order for it to show the correct date there would have to be 365 icons rotating daily on the dock.

[fart]

It's an icon.An image.In order for it to show the correct date there would have to be 365 icons rotating daily on the dock.

and?

the calendar icon is always accurate on the iPhone, why not on a computer 10x more powerful? Seriously, this really pisses me off, one of the reasons I hate iCal and refuse to have the icon in my dock. An accurate icon is a "must have" feature for leopard. No icon, no purchase.

[Eric5h5]

It's an icon.An image.In order for it to show the correct date there would have to be 365 icons rotating daily on the dock.

366. You can't ignore leap years. ;) Anyway, they could just generate the icon on the fly.

--Eric

[tkidBOSTON]

I realize this is annoying and yes, they should be able to have an updating icon like the iPhone but...

Wouldn't people who use the app keep it open most of the time and people that don't use it not have it in their doc leading to either the correct date showing or the icon not being seen? :confused:

[lamadude]

Oh no! Midnight for me... iCal day is over, I hate the 18th!!!

[gauchogolfer]

An accurate icon is a "must have" feature for leopard. No icon, no purchase.

So you would seriously skip upgrading to Leopard if they don't change the iCal icon behavior?


Wow, I guess the next FTFF will be FTFiI.

[Marky_Mark]

...365 icons rotating daily on the dock.

Sounds good to me - bring it on!

[xUKHCx]

It's an icon.An image.In order for it to show the correct date there would have to be 365 icons rotating daily on the dock.

There is nothing wrong with having that many icons, parallels has about 30 already.

Hang on, it changes the icon when the program is launched to the correct date, so either it already has 366 icons inside the program (which it doesn't) or it creates them on the fly. Surely this can be done without the program being open.

I use iCal enough to have it in the dock but don't keep it open all the time, just find it really annoying.

[WildCowboy]

Correct, it generates the icon on the fly when open...there's a blank icon that gets text added to it. But when iCal is closed, there's no mechanism to update the icon. You would need some sort of separate daemon running in the background that would be able to continually update the icon. It could certainly be done though...

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[Lau]

Would you need 365 icons, though? Most people know what month it is, so you could have 31 and ditch the month.