Comments on: OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

By: zombieskin

zombieskin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:47:25 +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

5space>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

By: LIZ

LIZ — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:14:20 +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.

By: Madhavi

Madhavi — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:55:47 +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!

By: Eric P

Eric P — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:22:52 +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!

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:16:51 +0000

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

By: Steve Webb

Steve Webb — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:14:54 +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.

By: Brent York

Brent York — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:57:09 +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.

By: dicky109

dicky109 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:16:46 +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.

By: joco324

joco324 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:37:27 +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.

By: davak

davak — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:45:34 +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. :)