Date won't show in menu bar

Hey Jimmy,

Can any of you macmasters help me out on this?

Let's see.
You said:
"Under date & time then under clock I have checked: show date/time in menu bar, view as digital and show day of the week. I get the day of the week and the time but no date."

If what you say is correct, then what you see on the menu bar is correct.
On my Date & Time Control Panel, under Clock, there is one more check box to fill in.
Show date.

Does yours have one of those and is it checked?

I don't have an International under Date & Time but there is something similar, Language and Text preferences. That is only used to format how the date and time is displayed when the date and time functions is turned on, it does not turn the date on or off.

OS X 10.7.3

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Rita,

This is the problem you are having: You are trying to use the "Language & Text Preference Panel" to change the appearance of the Menu Bar Clock.
Do not use the "Language and Text" preference pane, since it will have no affect on the appearance of the Menu Bar Clock.

Use the "Date & Time" preference pane instead.
In that preference pane, there will be a second option right under "Show the day of the week" to
"Show the date". Put a checkmark beside that option to show the month and day. It will only display the Short Day and the Short Month, and not the year at all, no matter how you try to change it via the Language and Text preferences. Apple sure missed on this one. Perhaps it will be changed in the next release of OS X, but somehow, I do not expect this to happen any time soon.

If you want to see the Long or Full date, you must use a third-party menu-bar clock, such as "Day-O". It is free, and can be found in the Apple Store. Just click on the "Rocket" icon next to the Finder icon on the Dock. I heartily recommend it to anyone who likes to change the MenuBar clock appearance. Give it a try. I believe you will like it.

Donald Lee McDaniel

I was having the same problem with trying to make the date appear and this worked!! No year, but I've got the day, date and time. Thank you.

Hey macmasters,

Thank you for your responses and suggestions. I am glad this answered the question for Old CelticHippy, but it did not work for me.

'On my Date & Time Control Panel, under Clock, there is one more check box to fill in.
Show date.' I don't have that option. I wish I knew how to capture the window image to show you but under the date & time tab I have only one option to click: 'set date and time automatically'. I can check this (I have it checked) or if I uncheck it I can set the date/time manually. This is my only option under that tab. Then I have a 'time zone' tab and a 'clock' tab.
Under 'clock' tab I have 'show date and time in menu bar' checked. Then under 'view as' I have 'digital' checked. Under digital I have 5 options to pick from: display time w/seconds, show AM/PM, show day of the week, flash time separators, use 24-hour clock. There is no option to show the date at all. I have the option of showing the day checked.

If I could get the short date to show I would be satisfied. I do not need the long date. However, if I download the menu clock from Day-0 would that allow me to see the short date? It looks like os x 10.5.8 won't let me show the date (very strange) but if Day-O would that is all I'm after and this will solve my problem

Thanks for the tip about Day-O, the dates in the menubar have been bugging me for some time. Took me long enough before I did something about it though... I couldn't find it on the App Store so I turned to google and it's still available online via this link:

http://shauninman.com/archive/2011/10/20/day_o_mac_menu_bar_clock

I know this thread is old, but it should have the correct solution posted in here anyway since it comes up pretty high in a google search. You don't need to install third party software since OSX will display the full date in the menu bar if you know what to select.

In the International pane of the system preferences, you need to select "Customize" in the Times section. In here in the Show: dropdown, select 'Long' format that you need to edit, since that format is what is displayed in the menu bar.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. OldCelticHippy did it for me this time I disabled the os x date/time and just downloaded day-0. It is just amazing to me how simple it is to fix a problem if you know the right buttons to push

I now have the date, day and time on my menu.

I love this site.

Rita

Rita, I made a mistake in my post. Do NOT click on the Rocket icon, this opens the Launchpad.

Instead, click on the Blue "A" icon to access the Apple Store. Other than that, everything else I posted is correct.
Sorry