Highlighting today's date

In month view, iCal highlights today's date in light blue. For some reason, today's date is no longer highlighted on my iMac. How do I get the highlighting back? Also, how do I change the color of the highlighting?

madtownwriter,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Highlighting of the current day is in pale blue the only display behavior that I have observed in iCal. That is to say the current day is dimly highlighted, almost to the point of being white and invisible. Many users have complained about the fact that it is too dim and needs to be darkened. Other selected days are highlighted in a dim almost white gray.
Since your current day is apparently no longer being displayed even in light blue, your iCal preference may be corrupted. You can Quit iCal, find the com.apple.iCal.plist file in your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder, drag it to the Desktop, and log out/in or restart.
I personally find the iCal Widget, and iCal Events to be helpful for the current day display.
If you want/need a color change, you can submit OS X Feedback expressing your needs and desires.
;~)

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