Date in menu bar

Not sure why but the date does not show in my menu bar. I've been to System Preferences and selected Show Date and Time in Menu Bar but only the day and time shows, not the date, e.g. April 18. Any ideas?

Yeah, your right. That's a new feature in Snow Leopard. Instead, got to http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatmenus/ and download istat menus.
When it installs in system preferences, disable all the menus except for "Date and Time" By editing the "menubar layout" you get very extensive options for how to display your date and time.

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Can you set the 'time, day, AND DATE' in menu bar ?

I note that the DAY and Time are in my menu bar (top line of screen), I would find it more than handy to be able to have the DATE also there , there has GOT to be a simple answer ?????.
I am having fun learning a 'new' (to me) system....the wife is now a computer widow !!!
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Click the Time - greyed out date.
Just like a real wife -
they don't tell you everything unless you ask ... in the right way.

Time and DATE in Menu Bar

How do you display BOTH the time and DATE in the menu bar?

Greg
Here is one way: Date and Time in the Menu Bar (10.3, 10.4).
If you are not keen on the command line, you could try this from macosxhints: 10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar which I think some people have used successfully.

Cannot display date in menu bar

For some reason, my computer (in OS 10.3.9) will only display the date & time in the floating window (by checking the box to display date & time and selecting the button to display in window thru system preferences), but won't display the date & time in the menu bar (even though it should since the menu bar button is selected in the system preferences).
This seems to be a bug in OS 10.3.9 that has not been fixed yet. Has anyone had this problem and been able to fix it?
Thanks

Hi ndl! And Welcome To Discussions!
From March 2006 MacAddict magazine p.56
Open Terminal
At the prompt, type or copy & paste
defaults write -g AppleICUTimeFormatStrings -dict-add 2 "MMMM d, y hh':'mm':ss' 'a"
Press Return
Then type killall SystemUIServer
Press Return again, and your menu bar will disappear.
Click anywhere on your Desktop to reload it.
This setting only affects your User Account; other users on the Mac will not see the change.
To restore your menu bar to normal, repeat the process, omitting the MMMM d, y part in the first Terminal command, like so:
defaults write -g AppleICUTimeFormatStrings -dict-add 2 "hh':'mm':ss' 'a"
For Tiger 10.4.x
Easily add the date to the menubar Mac OS X Hints
For Panther 10.3.x
Add the date to the menubar clock Mac OS X Hints
Also,
Tip: Date and Time in the Menu Bar
Good Luck!
ali b

Add date in menu bar

I'm using a 2014 iMac 21.5" 1.4 GHZ Intel Core i5 and would like to add the day and date to the menu bar. Used to have it on my old iMac 17" G5 but don't remember how to set it up again. Miss not seeing them up there and any help would be greatly appreciated,

This is from Mavericks - Yosemite is probably similar. System Preferences>Date & Time:

Show long format date in menue bar

how do i get the long format -- i.e., Sat. Mar 5, 08 AND the time -- to show in my menu bar? as the help menu suggested, i pulled up the date and time window and specified the long format in international but the menu bar still only shows Mon and the time but no date. many thanks, steven totosy

Thank you. I will try this method when I have the courage. There was a cut and past technique with time and date in international preferences which I read as a tip which I could easily do with my MacBook Pro but not with my wife's. I can't find that reference now.

Display date on menu bar

I would like to add the date to the day and time display on the menu bar. Is there a way to do this? (I mean on the nenu bar itself - not the pulldown.) This is with OS 10.3.9
Thanks for any help.

Color me confused, and a naive new Mac user (I'm a Solaris / Linux guy by profession, but the FreeBSD under the hood of OS X caught my eye), BUT:
What's up with System Preferences having options TITLED:
"Show Date and Time" "in the menu bar" with a variety of settings - and yet, in NO case does it ever actually display the DATE?? Okay, have it open as a window (or select the drop down), and you can see it, but... c'mon? I thought Apple was all about intuitive and logical UI / feature sets.
I'm just plain confused, by this, as well as the whole "July 17" iCal thing...
<sigh>

Display time AND date in Menu Bar OS X 10.6

Hi All -
When I updated from 10.5 to 10.6 (which went flawlessly), I noticed that the hack that I had used to display the date in the menubar no longer worked. I tried to rehack using the same technique in 10.6 as I did in 10.5 (except instead of clicking on International I clicked Language & Text) but it didn't work.
This is one of the reference sites that has the steps I used.
http://lifehacker.com/316029/display-the-date-on-the-menubar
Has anyone been able to get it to work or have any other workarounds for 10.6?
--Adam

awesome!
thanks this is great. this is new for 10.6
for anyone else thats having this problem, its in the Clock tab in Date & Time. unfortunately you can't customize it as before.
--Adam

Macbook pro menu bar date

Dumb question for the day. Ready? Is there any way to change the date on my menu bar so that the day/date reads before the month (e.g., 1 Feb instead of Feb 1)? Please help. Thanks! :-)
Dave

Hmmm... tried it myself - it works with the date that appears when you click on date in Menu bar, but doesn't change the date ON the Menu bar.
However, the date on my Menu bar is 1 Feb, not Feb 1, which gave me a clue.
Go to System preferences > Language & region > select region, choose Europe then United Kingdom. Now your date in the Menu bar will be 1 Feb.
However, this may change your other dates to UK format (today, for example being 01/02/2014 as oposed to 02/01/2014 as is normally written in US).
This is the best solution I could come up with!

Date & Time won't show in Menu Bar

I just installed the latest automatic update for Leopard and now in the right hand side of the menu bar only shows the Default Folder X icon and the Spotlight icon (my bluetooth, infared, airport icons and date & time are missing).
I go to the Date & Time preferences and click the option to have it appear, but when I close that window or just switch to another tab on that same window, it resets it back to being unchecked.
I know, of course, to unlock these settings and tried locking them or leaving them unlocked in hopes it would actually "lock in" my choice of settings, but with no such luck.
If anyone knows how to get my other icons back where they belong I'd appreciate that as well.

I actually don't use "Default Folder" at all, it came with Leopard.
But this problem didn't come up until the latest updates.
There was a file permissions error in running activity Monitor, though.
{quote}
+Follow this path in the Finder: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/+
+and double-click on Clock.menu to add it to your menu bar.+
{quote}
Double-click didn't do anything, tried to drag it up there thinking (for some reason) that might work, but no luck there as well.
{quote}
+A Tiger reference but probably works for Leopard too: Menu bar reset+
+I had Default Folder on my OS9 computer but read some things about issues with the OSX version that made me decide not to continue with it, though I haven't read anything about recent versions.+
{quote}
No luck here, as well. Although the file I was supposed to delete in ByHost wasn't there, so maybe that has something to do with it.
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Getting Date and Time to Show in the Menu Bar

I have the OS setup to set the date and time automatically and the clock set to "show date and time in the Menu Bar. I have the international set up for the Day of Week, Month, Date and Year, but the menu bar only shows "Fri X:XX:XX PM" is there any way to get it to show me Fri May XX, 2008 X:XX:XX PM"?
Thanks for any help.
John

I use iClock too. It is much more customizable than the Time & Date clock provided with the system. I have used it for several years and it has been very stable for a third-party application.
Although I have only used it for a couple of months, I also really like another third-party application you may like, to put weather conditions on the menubar called WeatherDock (freeware). It accesses Weather.com to provide the current temperature (of course) but it can include several other weather conditions (depending on how much space you have on your menubar). In addition to temperature, I have it show the weather condition (currently partly cloudy, typical in Houston), wind direction and speed (I ride a bike to the office and this tells me if I’ll be fighting it or aided), and humidity (also a Houston favorite). It will also speak the weather conditions when they change.

Get date AND time to show in the menu bar

What is that technique to get date AND time to show in the menu bar please?

Install iStat Menu
System Preferences -> iStat Menus -> Date & Time
\[X] Show Date & Time
Format .... \[Edit]
(*) Custom (drag tokens to build a custom format)
Drag a light blue token into the edit line below the token selections. If you want a space a colon a dash, etc... just type that character(s) before after draging a token into place.
I created: 9:35 PM Sat 1-Aug-2009
You can create anything you like in any order you like.
The other alternative (if you happen to be a fan of the Unix strftime() function) would be to use the % formatting characters in the Expert time format expression box. Use the Terminal "man strftime" to find out all the available % formatting codes.
But I think the Custom Drag & Drop section is the easiest to use.
However, if this doesn't work for you, then I guess it is just a case of "Your Mileage May Vary".

Date and time in menu bar

Hi everyone,
I'm having a very silly problem that is driving me crazy. I found similar problems on this forum but not exactly the answer to them.
The "Show date and time in menu bar" checkbox System Preferences will not remain checked. I have checked it 50 times but every time I close it and go back it's unchecked.
Based on some suggestions on the forum I check the SystemUIServer in Activity Monitor and it's hanging (i.e. Not Responding). I tried force quitting and restarting but it doesn't get it going. Somehow I think these two problems are related.
I also tried deleting the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file under ~/Library/Preferences and logging out and back in to go back to system defaults on the menu bar but that didn't work either.
Alot of people solved similar problems by installing OS X 10.5.2 but I'm already running 10.5.2! I'm running out of ideas here.
Any help is appreciated.

Excuse me, my interface is in Dutch and I literally translated the name.
Desktop and Screen saver I believe, select the menu for the screen saver.
There is a box you can tick, it will display the time when the screen saver is running.
It could be displayed like 3553 instead of the correct time.
If that is the case check in another user account, or make a new user account in Apple menu>System preferences>Accounts. Does the problem occur in the new account as well?

How do i add my name to show in the menu bar, i had the date, time and my user name showing in the menu bar before, but can't remember how to do it. Thank you.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to add the user name in the menu bar. I used to have it showing along with the time & date etc. But i've looked everywhere trying to figure out how to do it. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thank you.

The following is old but may still be valid with Yosemite (it addresses how to remove the name but indirectly also how to display it): http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/10/remove-user-name-from-menu-bar-os-x/

Date & Time in menu bar problem

Hi
OK, I cannot get my digital clock icon to display in the menu bar on top of desktop. I had it in the past but when I go to 'date & time' in system preferences, select box to click on it, and it will deselect itself somehow. End result, no digital clock in my menu bar.
Any suggestions please???
Thanks,
Maree

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and enter /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/ as the folder's location; when this folder appears, double-click the item Clock or Clock.menu inside and see if it appears in the menu bar.
If the clock appears, enter ~/Library/Preferences into the Go to Folder prompt and move the file com.apple.systemuiserver.plist in that folder to the desktop. Try adding the clock again.
If the clock does not appear or the item doesn't exist, use Pacifist to extract Clock.menu from your Mac OS X installation disks and then run the combo updater for your version of Mac OS X.
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