iCal displays the wrong date on the dock

This problem started for me a couple of days ago. It reverts to the correct date if you close and reopen it. But that's not really on is it?

I'm in the southern hemisphere and I thought maybe it had something to do with iCal looking at the date in the northern hemisphere but I don't think that's the case.

This happens to me too, its currently the 4th but ical displays the 3rd.

The funny thing is, in leopard, there is supposed to be an improvement where ical always shows the right date on the icon (because it updates even when the app is closed). In tiger I never had a problem because whenever ical was open it would always show the correct date and I always have ical open. Now that I use leopard the ical icon date is rarely correct!

Mine started doing the same thing on Dec 2...It displayed the 1st and now (the 3rd) is displays the 2nd unless the app is open

I hope we can fix this soon, i've gotten used to looking at that for the date and now i get confused!

My icon is now displaying the correct date. Maybe it's fixed itself.

No, still broken.

iCal displaying wrong date on Dock after SL update

I installed SL on my Macbook last night with no (apparent) issues. This morning I noticed the iCal icon on the dock read "Aug 28". When I opened iCal to investigate the date on the dock corrected itself to today's date, "Aug 29". Then when I quit iCal, it reverted back to "Aug 28". Is anyone else experiencing this on their Macs?

I'm experiencing the same problem. While it's the 29th now the dock icon show the 27th. When I open iCal, it changes to 29th and returning to the 27th when I quit iCal again.

mine shows july 17 on the dock when it's not open, but when i open ical it shows the correct date. if i exit it, it goes back to july 17

ej3ffrey said:

mine shows july 17 on the dock when it's not open, but when i open ical it shows the correct date. if i exit it, it goes back to july 17

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I'm assuming you're running 10.4 Tiger

I just took the icon out of the dock and put it back in via the normal route (dragging from applications folder). It displays the correct date now when closed or opened. Will see if it holds. Seems to check out when changing the date.

Have you tried repairing permissions, boot into safe mode, zapped PRAM?

Resetting the PRAM did the trick! Thanks markojug!

swiftaw said:

I'm assuming you're running 10.4 Tiger

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no, this is on snow leopard. i'm on a unibody MBP. i'll try removing from dock then dragging it back, then PRAM and see if that works.

I have a unibody macbook. I installed SL last night. I had the same problem this morning. I restarted and now it is fine.

I had the same problem after installing snow leopard. Removing ical from the dock and dragging it back from applications folder fixed the problem.

iCal dock date was driving me crazy

I was having the same problemo. The iCal icon in the dock was a day behind. I drug it off the dock and replaced it with the iCal in Applications. Work for a couple days. The the date was off again. I replaced it again and it worked for a couple more days. Then I tried the PRAM clear (Option-Command-P-R) and that also worked - for one day.

I called Apple today and here is what we did:

First, All applications (except Finder) must be closed.

On the Finder menu bar, click on "Go," then on "Home."

Go into the Library folder

Delete the Caches folder

Go into the Library / Preferences folder

Delete the files: com.apple.iApps.plist; com.apple.iCal.helper.plist; and com.apple.iCal.plist

Restart system

spease said:

I was having the same problemo. The iCal icon in the dock was a day behind. I drug it off the dock and replaced it with the iCal in Applications. Work for a couple days. The the date was off again. I replaced it again and it worked for a couple more days. Then I tried the PRAM clear (Option-Command-P-R) and that also worked - for one day.

I called Apple today and here is what we did:

First, All applications (except Finder) must be closed.

On the Finder menu bar, click on "Go," then on "Home."

Go into the Library folder

Delete the Caches folder

Go into the Library / Preferences folder

Delete the files: com.apple.iApps.plist; com.apple.iCal.helper.plist; and com.apple.iCal.plist

Restart system

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I have a macbook pro running 10.4 and this solution did not work for me. Any other ideas? I'm real tired of looking at Jul 17 in the dock.

Al Dunbar said:

I had the same problem after installing snow leopard. Removing ical from the dock and dragging it back from applications folder fixed the problem.

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+1. This seemed to work for me in Snow Leopard as well.

to change ical date

I've tried the more complicated suggestions here, which threw me off the
simple solution that worked for me to change ical date:
-click on the date and time at the right top corner of desktop bar
-open date and time
-uncheck set date & time automatically if it's checked
-below that, scroll to the correct date and time
-check also that you are in the correct time zone (see top of box) by dragging icon on a map of the world to where you live
been a few days - so far, so good
. . . this is on a month old macbook which I'm assuming is snow leopard

Correct icon date won't ever happen before OS 10.5

I have a macbook pro running 10.4 and this solution did not work for me. Any other ideas? I'm real tired of looking at Jul 17 in the dock.

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As far as I remember, this feature was added in 10.5, so don't bother trying any of these fixes if you aren't at least on Leopard.

Solution

Open up terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type this:

After you hit enter, the dock will disappear and reappear, and the correct date should show.

Old thread, but couldn't pass this up.

wetrix said:

I'm in the southern hemisphere and I thought maybe it had something to do with iCal looking at the date in the northern hemisphere but I don't think that's the case.

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I'm in the U.S. As far as I know, it's today in Brazil.

Old thread I know....but this happened to me today. Running 10.6.3....looked down at iCal dock icon and it still says Jul 7. Guess I'll try some of the "fixes" here and see what happens.