Date and Time on Menu Bar

Up until now the date and time has been displayed on the menu bar as...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:09 AM
Now, for some reason, it's being displayed as...
Tue 8:09 AM
Here's what I've tried in trying to restore the format...
1) System Preferences > Menu Bar Clock > Show Date and Time in Menu Bar
2) Deleted the following preference files:
com.apple.MenuBarClock.plist
com.apple.systempreferences.plist
com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
Does anyone know how I can restore the format?
Thanks!
eMac Mac OS X (10.2.x) 128 MB, 700 MHz PowerPC G4

It looks like there can be as little
as 6 or so characters between the two sets of
icons
That sounds low, especially in
the Finder, even at the lower screen resolutions. I
just played with stepping down resolutions on this
Mac, and various right-side icons (the CoreServices
eject.menu, Display, Classic, and sound icons, plus
those from MenuMeters) disappeared
before the date and time (shown as "Tue 28 Nov, 04:00
PM" were affected (right-side menu items are
truncated from left to right).
In my case, just the date disappeared. So instead of seeing...
Tue November 28, 2006 5:43 PM
...I was seeing...
Tue 5:43 PM
The icons to the left (on the right side icons) were still there and unaffected.
What Display
resolution do you normally use?
It's set at 1024 X 768.
Does the time&date
format go back to the expected form if you increase
resolution to maximum as a test? If the format
affected by starting up in Safe Mode?
After trying the remedy you reference in your previous post, the format is back to where it was so I won't be able to test it. But I guess you suspect that the Date and Time was truncated because there wasn't enough space between the left side and right side icons, is this right? It would seem like a logical explanation...

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