Re: Date and Time in menu bar

Tim Streater wrote:
In article <C57BB7B0.8E4A%lynn.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Lynn W <lynn.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 27/12/08 07:04, in article 6rm2bhF29ib6U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chris
Ridd" <chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2008-12-27 01:58:58 +0000, coz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (SimonB) said:

Lynn W <lynn.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been trying for the past hour to get the date as well as the day and
time to show in the Menu Bar. I once got it to show only to find that the
date showed twice then in iCal, so foolishly I thought I'd try and put it
right!! Somehow I have managed to lose the date again and no matte what I
can't get it back. I keep going in to Date and Time and then customising
but I am getting nowhere. Can anyone help please
Click (once) on the time in the menu bar.
The date should be the first item on the drop-down menu revealed by your
click.
I've no idea how to display date right up in the menu bar itself.
I think you can do it by customizing one of the time "formats" to
actually include the date as well. You would do that in System
Preferences > International.

It is a bit of a bodge!
Hi Chris
Yes I think that's how I did it last time, but I can't seem to do it now.
Mind you I hadn't realised that if I clicked on the time it showed me the
date underneath, I'm sure it didn't before :-) I'm happy enough with it
doing that.
Lynn

I just managed this under 10.5.6. In "International", customise the date under the Format tab for say Medium, select all the formatting items, and then Edit->Copy.

Still under the Format tab, Customise the Medium date format and paste the copied items where you want them to appear, and add some spacing if you wish.

Doing this appears to turn off the seconds and the flashing time separators, so I had to go back into Date/Time to re-enable them.

As Simon says, it's a bodge and there is I imagine the danger that the date may now appear twice where some software is using the time/date formats to display a time and date.


I tried this and had a problem with dates in Excel.

Rob
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