Clock in Tiger

[ac2102]

I can't for the life of me work out what on earth i am doing wrong here. I cannot get the clock on the top bar to display as i want it. i have set up the clock in Date & Time and changed the settings in the International / Formats section of System preferences. But it still can't get the clock to display AM/PM and get rid of the leading 0.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks in advance,
ac2102

 

[Darwin]

I had this problem awhile ago

I fixed it through the International Settings so im not sure what could be the problem

 

[ac2102]

Thanks for the swift reply!

Unfortunately, i have already tried that. I have attached a copy of the international setting. The clock is visible too.

 

[clayj]

What do the settings look like if you click the clock and then click "Open Date & Time..."? That's where you control AM/PM and whether to use 24-hour time.

 

[Darwin]

What do the settings look like if you click the clock and then click "Open Date & Time..."? That's where you control AM/PM and whether to use 24-hour time.

yes if we can see both then it might help solve this problem

 

[ac2102]

Sorry guys! Not being particularly efficient today.

Here is the Date & Time pref pane. The AM/PM button is greyed out.

Thanks again for helping out!

 

[mkrishnan]

Two comments that might help explain, but aren't a fix in and of themselves. In your International, notice how there is no space between the time and the AM/PM. It looks like "2:34AM" instead of "2:34 AM" -- mine looks like the latter. Also I could not find any way to make my AM/PM button in Date&Time grey out. Strange. Hate to keep asking for screenshots, but can you hit the customize button in International / Format and show us what that looks like?

Also, possibly try changing the format back to a standard (such as US) and then re-customizing it.

 

[James Philp]

Try toggling the 24 hour clock on/off a bit and playing around to get the am/pm thing to show.

Personally, I don't have space on the menubar for the clock anymore, so i put one in that corner of the dashboard and just invoke that when I need to see the time. If someone asks me, it also give me a reason to use the dashboard, and they are like "Hey, what's that..."
Hehe

 

[ZaniCWB]

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Ok, I'll try to explain to you:

Go to System Preferences > International > Formats

Select 'Customize...' on 'Times' area. After that you click on the time showing. Here is 19 (then it opens a list with options > that's what you're looking for). Hope it helps.

Posted some pics to help ;-)

 

[Applespider]

Hmm... my AM/PM is greyed out too. And I can't force mine to get rid of the leading 0 either...

Unless I change my region to US or US (Computer) rather than UK in International Preferences, and then it changes to 7:45PM quite happily

 

[ac2102]

OK, so i looked at what you were all telling me and realised that i had everything set up.

BUT!

I then thought about it a little more and realised that in the Customise section of Times in International/Formats i had not set all of the time formats to the same standard. That is, the short time (the one i assumed would be used for the system clock) was set up for AM/PM, not 24 hr, but the other formats were not. So when i altered all of the other formats to do the same, the problem was solved!

Thanks so much for your help, i always try and help out when i can as i am always amazed at the willingness of members here to help out with problems, no matter how big or small.

Thanks again,

ac2102

 

[Jaffa Cake]

I also had hassles setting up the clock to my exacting tastes – you have to do a bit of fiddling around in the International/Formats/Times pane. You need to make sure the am/pm is in the horizontal bar at the top of the pane. You may have missed (I didn't realise this at first myself) that a little menu opens up when you click on the right of the 'blobs' in the bar – you can use this to remove the leading zero (I've attached a pic which shows what I mean in case I'm being a bit vague).

Alter the options to your requirements in each of the settings (Full, Long, Medium and Short) and your clock should work as you want – at least, that's how I sorted it and hopefully it'll work for you!

Edit: looks like ZaniCWB has sorted you out!