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Putting Time AND Date in the Menu Bar

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Thanks for the tip and link. I did not know how to accomplish that before. It's a keeper.
 
Good post, I can use this...I am always forgetting the date and have to click on the time to find it out. Thanks :).
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
Yeah that was actually what I was searching for when I came across this tip. But since this is all I really wanted I might well save myself a few Kb of RAM.
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iStat Menu's makes your date and time menu a calendar and world clock that can launch iCal.

Btw, to make iStat's date and time look like the native one, set the color to black (duh), the size to 14pt, and turn the shadow off.
 
sammich said:
I've tried putting things in the menu bar area with Geektool. The items in your menu bar move, Geektool items are permanent, overlap is gonna happen.
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Huh? Mine don't overlap at all...
 

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Well iStat or not. I'm just bringing up the topic. Like I said, I was looking for iStat originally and stumbled upon this native approach.
 
I have been using iStat Menus but I only made use of the Date & Time function. That's why I thought it would be nice if I'd be able to do it without a 3rd party app. But apparently it doesn't work with my Mac.
 
epyfa said:
I have been using iStat Menus but I only made use of the Date & Time function. That's why I thought it would be nice if I'd be able to do it without a 3rd party app. But apparently it doesn't work with my Mac.
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It should work, I will admit that the link I posted wasn't exactly right. I had to put the International Custom Date on Long (not medium) to get it to work. It requires a little fiddling with to get it just right. I encourage you to experiment a little bit.
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
It should work, I will admit that the link I posted wasn't exactly right. I had to put the International Custom Date on Long (not medium) to get it to work. It requires a little fiddling with to get it just right. I encourage you to experiment a little bit.
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Well the changes I do in International --> Formats --> Times do not affect the time in my Menubar at all. No matter what I do to it.
 
sweet. thanks very much. really used to bug me having to click the time in order to find the date. great link, thanks again!!!
 
pb1300 said:
How do you get rid of the original time and date if you are using iStat? I dloaded it, and now have two time and date stamps.
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Open system preferences, click on Date and Time, and remove the tick in the box next to "show the time in the menu bar" (or something similar). This will remove one of the date/times.
 
epyfa said:
Well the changes I do in International --> Formats --> Times do not affect the time in my Menubar at all. No matter what I do to it.
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OK my bad definitely a case of not RTFMing in my case I skimmed the instructions and just totally missed the stuff about copy/paste the format from date into time.

In my time section I now have (using the mac examples under customize)

5 Jan ; 7 08

the 5 and the Jan are copied from the date setting. The day isn't needed because under 'clock', show the day of the week is ticked.

So my menu bar now says Tue 26 May; 17:12
 
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