How to make OS X to display the new year greeting?

[hajime]

Happy New Year!

Over 10 years ago, the Macs under System 7 displayed a new year greeting on Jan 1. Anybody knows why Apple removed such greeting? Is there any way to get back this feature?

 

[miles01110]

It's gone for good.

 

[hajime]

It's gone for good.

Why? I miss this feature.

 

[miles01110]

Why? I miss this feature.

Because Apple decided it should go away.

 

[SplicedBanjo]

Maybe they prefer that you watch the Times Square ball drop on your iPhone.

 

[orvn]

I think you could theoretically create a cron job to run:
osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to display dialog "Happy New Year!"'
(try it in terminal).

I think you could also do it with automator, but I'm not to practiced with it personally.

 

[hajime]

I think you could theoretically create a cron job to run:
osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to display dialog "Happy New Year!"'
(try it in terminal).

I think you could also do it with automator, but I'm not to practiced with it personally.

Thanks. I recall that the message was displayed immediate after boot (before System 7 was ready).