Comments on: Modify the default clock in OS X’s menu bar to show the full date

By: rocketmouse

rocketmouse — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:00:51 +0000

Thank goodness it *still* works on 10.5.8 at the end of 2011! (borrowed iBook G4)

By: UU Woman

UU Woman — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:15:03 +0000

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I think Apple just needs to be dope slapped once in a while.
(iBook G4, OS X 10.5.8

By: Pauline

Pauline — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:54:19 +0000

BTW you can insert heart symbols etc. to make it more interesting-looking (Finder-Special characters-Miscellaneous).
Great tip, thanks! Works fine on 10.5.8. on MacBook and iMac.

By: Pellegrino

Pellegrino — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:33:23 +0000

Awesome thanks, this has been driving me batty for a while and I finally decided to look into it! I’m running 10.4.11 on a Mac Mini. It wasn’t working at first. I added the date to “Short”, because that’s how I want the time displayed on the menu bar. But I saw the comment from Ken2 saying that it seems you have to add the date to “Medium.” So I did, and the date was added to the menu bar! It actually doesn’t display the seconds though, just 2:30 PM, which is perfect, because that’s what I wanted. Thanks again! Can’t believe this isn’t easier.

By: Jim McCullough

Jim McCullough — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:32:48 +0000

Absolutely love the clock/date tweak for my ibook g4 os x 10.5.8 leopard

Thanks a bunch.

Jim (Sebastopol, CA)

By: Boxer Fran

Boxer Fran — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:27:59 +0000

thank you, very nicely presented.

By: Ant

Ant — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:01:54 +0000

Webbadger,
This tip is for prior versions of Mac OS X and does not work in 10.6. Apple added a new feature in Snow Leopard’s System Preferences that lets you add the month and date there, though.

By: Webbadger

Webbadger — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:18:30 +0000

No. Still don’t work on Snow Leopard for me. Can someone confirm if they got it to work on 10.6.2 please?

By: albo

albo — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:55:48 +0000

I finally got it to work after much fiddling – keep trying different variations and it should work. The weird thing for me: I had to use the “long” option rather than the “medium” in the “times” dropdown on two completely different OS versions – a PPC running 10.4.11 and an Intel running 10.5, so if “Medium” isn’t working try the other options.
They sure don’t make it easy!

By: lune

lune — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:58:05 +0000

Thanks a lot, I used your tip, a year and a half ago, and bookmarked this page. I am now back and with a fresh install of 10.5.8 PB G4 it just works.
As some mentioned before, Make sure to be on MEDIUM on the “Times” tab.
This time I just added the Date(nber)+Month and didn’t unclick the “show day of the week” in the pref/date & time/Clock tab.
I haven’t rebooted yet, so that might get jammed up later, but the Date and Month inserted themselves in the right place.
Thank you again

By: Webbadger

Webbadger — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:53:59 +0000

Sir, please consider reviewing this tweak for Snow Leopard 10.6.1. It don’t (seem to) work. Thanks.

By: erinblythe

erinblythe — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:10:44 +0000

Yay! This has bugged me forever! Thanks for all your tips!

By: Drew Smith

Drew Smith — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:28:55 +0000

Thanks so much! I use this several times a day!

By: John

John — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:01:18 +0000

Hey, that tip w/ medium made it work for me! Thanks a lot in general, great to get the date on my screen shots ;)

By: thewinchester

thewinchester — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:42:36 +0000

Brilliant, thanks a bunch for this tip – it’s greatly appreciated as its a feature I miss from my Windows desktops.

By: Ken2

Ken2 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:54:51 +0000

For those who said it didn’t work, perhaps you didn’t set your “Show:” selector to “Medium” as shown in steps 3 & 4. Mine came up set to “Short”, and editing that didn’t do anything, but editing Medium did. Medium seems to be the only format used by the menubar clock. Good luck.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:06:31 +0000

This tip worked great for me! I’m on 10.5.6 as well.

By: Mouse

Mouse — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:59:37 +0000

Does not work for me either. MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.6 GHz, Leopard, latest patches (10.5.6).

By: DelNorte

DelNorte — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:14:38 +0000

This doesn’t work for me either unfortunately
MacBookPro
10.5.6

By: Rene Flores

Rene Flores — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:11:46 +0000

I have been looking for this mod for a long time. Thank you very much for sharing. This was very helpful. Worked perfectly for me (MacBook Pro Core Duo, 2 GHz, OS X 10.5.6)

By: Ant

Ant — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:35:05 +0000

Ken,

I’m not quite sure why it’s not working for you, but I can confirm the trick still works in 10.5.6.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:01:42 +0000

This tweak no longer works on Leopard 10.5.6 :-(

at least on the following systems

PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8
PowerBook Pro 2.2 Ghz
iMac 1.83Ghz

Wish it did though… Why would they break something so helpful?

By: James

James — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:19:34 +0000

Oh man this is awesome. Thanks!

By: MacBoy

MacBoy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:25:38 +0000

This tutorial was very helpful. Thank you very much!