No green icon for time machine disk ?

Just a very minor question:
My time machine disk now appears with the same yellow icon that is used for all "standard" hard disk drives.
Is there no more green disk icon ? Or can I set this manually ? (if so, how ?)

Thanks Stef_Heck
You are perfectly right: at some stage this morning (something like 10 hours after having installed Yosemite) the icon became green automatically.
So just a question of being patient
Now 100% happy with Yosemite (while I only was 99,5% happy before.....)

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