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Blog Sighting: Display The Date In The Mac OS X Menu Bar

February 20th, 2007 at 03:13pm madgunde

Any Mac user knows you can display the current time in the right side of the menu bar. Most even know you can set it to also display the day of the week, and that clicking the clock will pull down a menu which displays today’s date.

If you’re like me, you often want to know what today’s date is, and you find having to click the clock or bring up Dashboard to check the Calendar widget to be a tad inconvenient. Sure you could leave iCal running, which will display today’s date in it’s Dock icon, and you can’t be sure you’ll leave it running all the time.

Today I came across a great hint on Macinstruct (by way of MacDailyNews), which explains how to get the date to display with the time in the menu bar, by customizing the time format in the International preference pane. Click the following link to read the full step-by-step instructions.

Macinstruct Tutorial: How to Display the Date in the Menu Bar

Macinstruct seems to be a new website, so they don’t have too much content up yet, but I’m going to keep my eye on it as it looks like it might be a great resource for useful Mac OS X hints in the future. They have a few other hints and tutorials in their How-Tos section, so check it out!

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