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Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

Argekuys — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:54:58 -0000

Is there any way to format the date in Lion? I prefer seeing "Wednesday, April 13", rather than Wed Apr 13" which is the way Lion displays it when you check the boxes as you indicated above.

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

Meisa Bowie — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:25:58 -0000

Thank You!!!!!

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

David Kirk - Founder/Editor — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:41:12 -0000

I just updated this for OS X Lion (10.7)

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

UseMacOSonPC — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:13:34 -0000

Works awesome in 10.5.4. I even tried russian format - it works! Thanks a lot - its been a year since I use Mac OS on my HP Pavillion dv1000 and everything is fantastic, and more - now I got the date on a menu bar !!! Cheers!

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

UseMacOsOnPC — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:12:28 -0000

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

maurolippo — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:56:56 -0000

This example doen't work on Snow Leopard

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

petruza — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:43:18 -0000

MacOSX 10.5.7 - This works.
But, for some reason, if you delete the seconds from the customized format, it will show your GMT offset and not the date.
Just leave the seconds there and then disable them from the date preferences panel.

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

Duane Lambe — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:47:25 -0000

I couldn't get this to work normally under 10.5.7, so I finally went to customize the Time, and edited it like

5<space>space>7:08 PM

The first 5 is the date of the week, copied and pasted from the Dates customization.

What happened to me is that the Day of the week wouldn't go away so i left it there, and threw the Date and Time in after it; so I believe what's resulted is the Day of the week from the custom Dates, and the Date/Time from custom Times, resulting in

Tues 7 11:47 AM

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

LIZ — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:14:20 -0000

I feel like an idiot! I've tried this over & over, and I still cannot get the month & year! Any other thoughts? Maybe I have some box checked off that shouldn't be?? Anyway, thank you all very much or your help. I really appreciate it.

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

Madhavi — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:55:47 -0000

Well..Like you, not having the date in the menu bar was also driving me up the wall... So I Googled this, and found your site - after a few hiccups-trial-and-errors, I finally, got it to work... Thanks! Especially from a new Mac convert!

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

Eric P — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:22:52 -0000

You rock! Another interesting tidbit...if you copy the time(s), then paste into a text editor, you get a format that is easy to manipulate in text that you can paste back in, like so:

yy.MM.dd-h:mm:ss (which is my preferred format being a geek).

Anywho, this is cool stuff! Thanks for sharing!

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

Anon — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:16:51 -0000

Just found this having become a new Mac user and it works perfectly on 10.5.6 - THANKS :)

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

Steve Webb — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:14:54 -0000

What a great tip. As a switcher/slider, it's sometimes puzzling to me that some of these "obvious" features are not so obvious! Thanks for posting this one.

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

Brent York — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:57:09 -0000

Thanks a lot. That has baffled me for a while and I finally remembered this thing called "google it" and your site came right up. Well done.

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

dicky109 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:16:46 -0000

Thanks so much for this information. It just seems so basic to display the date, but I guess not in Cupertino. No problem, once I actually followed the instructions, in updating my menu bar in Leopard 10.5.5 as instructed.

Two precautions to let others know about from my own experience:
First, make sure that the "Date & Time" dialogue is not locked, otherwise it will revert to the original.
Second, make sure that for the "copy" portion of the task that you're working in the "Dates" Customize, and for the "paste" portion that you're working in the "Times" Customize.

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

joco324 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:37:27 -0000

Mac OS 10.5.5 -- got it to work in using the "Long" format, but had to put the date after the time. Not a big deal. Thanks for a great tute. Not having the date in the menu bar was driving me batty.

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

davak — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:45:34 -0000

Glad we could help. Welcome to the techrx community. Thanks for the kind comments.

/Loved that "genius bar" was in quotation marks. I usually use air quotes when I even say it aloud. :)

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:16:29 -0000

I switched it from medium to long.
It works great!!!
Thank you VERY much.
Jim

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:54:44 -0000

Davak,
I installed Leopard in an IMac. I am a long time Mac user. Like you I wanted the day, date and time on screen at all times. I even went to the "genius bar" at the Mac store. They offered no solution.
Someone sent me a link to your comments on "tech-recipes".

I tried it. I get this result:

Wed 10:44 CST

I did everything you said.

When I go back to try it again.
It defaults back to small, instead of medium...
Thank you very much!

Thanks,
Jim

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

davak — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:23:01 -0000

It works. I just repeated it.

Re: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:30:57 -0000

for some reason in 10.4.9 this work around does not work. any thoughts on an update to this tip? thanks.