Any way to get the date on the menu bar?

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Being a recent Switcher, I'm still getting used to the new ways of Mac.



Is there any way (either natively or via a shareware app) to get the date to appear in the right side of the menu bar next to the time?

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    regreg Posts: 832member
    Several ways

    1.wClock



    2. or the do it yourself way.

    Start by opening the International Preferences panel, and clicking the Formats tab.



    In the Dates section, click Customize. Click the Show pop-up and select your choice of Short, Medium, etc. Now place the elements you want in the small "work area," by dragging and dropping them from the Date Elements section. Once placed, you can click on some elements to see other options (Wednesday or Wed, for instance). Once you've built the date string you want, click once in the work area, and hit Command-A then Command-C to select the string and copy it. Now click Cancel to close the window without making any changes.



    In the Times section, click Customize, and set the Show pop-up to Medium. In the small work area below the pop-up, place the curser where you want the date elements to start, and click to position the cursor. Now hit Command-V to paste the elements you just copied. You can further add characters and spaces to customize the look. If you want to remove an element (i.e. the year), click on it and use the Delete key. Click OK, and you'll see the results in the menubar.



    reg
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  • Reply 2 of 5
    argeliusargelius Posts: 309member
    Hey Reg,

    Thanks for that!

    I guess I'm doing something wrong...I made all the changes as you detailed, but the changes I've entered in the "time" section are not showing up in the menu bar...
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  • Reply 3 of 5
    regreg Posts: 832member
    They should show up right after you click "OK".



    reg
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  • Reply 4 of 5
    bergzbergz Posts: 1,045member
    I used wclock, but switched to menucalendarclock because it's just as customizable and also has iCal integration. It's a very cool program. You click on the date in the menu bar and today's schedule drops down. you also have a little calendar of the month and you can either scroll over the dates to see what you have, click on them, or double click them to open them in iCal. Very beautiful interface.



    And iCal doesn't need to be open!!



    --B
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  • Reply 5 of 5
    argeliusargelius Posts: 309member
    Thanks! I'll give that a try.
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