how do you display the date?

[twoodcc]

was wondering how to have the date displayed on the menu bar? mine shows the day of the week, and the time, but not the month or date or anything

thanks in advance

 

[SilentPanda]

You can't do it through the OS X GUI. Why not is beyond me. I believe the only way to do it is to edit a plist somewhere, a terminal command, or a 3rd party program/hack.

Edit: Well nevermind. That's my one wrong answer of the year. 😉 Please don't refer to my other wrong answer posts.

 

[Applespider]

You can't do it through the OS X GUI.

Yes you can. It just takes a little digging. You do it through International Preferences.

Here are the instructions that I found originally from macosxhints - I seem to remember having to fiddle around with different length formats to make it work though

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar

Edit: Beaten by seconds by our favourite spider... 😱 😉

 

[PillarFan1]

i just have the day and time in the menu, and a calendar widget that i look at real fast if i need the date

 

[twoodcc]

thanks for the links guys. 😉

 

[Jaffa Cake]

I never realised you could do that – thanks for the link, you two.

My Menu Bar is now all dated up. 🙂

 

[PYR0M310N]

i always used to go through dashboard which was so slow, so thanks for that

 

[Temujin]

Yeah, thanks for the links. You can even add characters and not just time and date items. Like -

 

[treblah]

Here are some instructions from Paul Stamatiou that use the same method but are easier, IMHO, to understand.

 

[haleyvan]

none of these worked for me and i have been fooling arond with it for 2 days...is there some sort of trick??

 

[Transeau]

Here's mine

 

[polevault139]

I've tried too and it hasn't worked. It shows the format I want in the International tab, but when I say OK nothing changes

 

[kakkoiimac]

Today 11:44 AM
polevault139 I've tried too and it hasn't worked. It shows the format I want in the International tab, but when I say OK nothing changes

i spent about 15 min playing with it and i found out that i could only display the custom time that was under the Long setting.

maybe try messing around with that and see if it helps you...

 

[kakkoiimac]

I've tried too and it hasn't worked. It shows the format I want in the International tab, but when I say OK nothing changes

couldnt quite get that quote thing on

 

[Grakkle]

I've tried too and it hasn't worked. It shows the format I want in the International tab, but when I say OK nothing changes

That's strange - worked fine for me. Oh, thanks for the link spider and mitthraw- I've wanted to do that but hadn't figured out how till now.

 

[MrSmith]

Previous thread

 

[shov]

After messing about with this for a while after all my menu bar bits disappeared, i found that it only works if you reset the region bit in the in formats in international preferences to UK (or whatever) from custom, before following the instructions.

 

[PYR0M310N]

it worked fine on my G5 and my ibook, but not on my mums G4