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.

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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

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.

Spinning ball pops up every time and the top menu bar keeps flashing

The problem started today, for no apparent reason. I was working with some programs open (not many) when my screen froze. Nothing worked, so I closed the laptop to see if it would return to the home page (where you type the password) soon after I heard the 'apple sound'. The computer was restarted, when opened, there was a gray folder with an white question mark flashing in the center of the screen. I restarted the computer again.
From this time he began to have symptoms that persist until now:
• Every time I do some action on any application the spinning beach ball appears and for a few seconds the program is locked.
• The top menu bar - where the icons are located ( bluetooth, dropbox, battery, spotlight, etc.) flashes every 40 seconds.
I use this computer for work and thus can hardly surf the internet.
I hope someone can help me finding a solution to this.
Below are the data collected through the EtreCheck app about my computer:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,1
1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: (null)
Color LCD 1440 x 900
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 0 days 1:9:27
Disk Information:
APPLE HDD ST500LM012 disk0 : (500,11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499,25 GB (323,02 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Information:
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Logitech USB Optical Mouse
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper:
Mac App Store and identified developers
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[not loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
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[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist Support
[running] com.brother.LOGINserver.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
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[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
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iTunesHelper
Google Drive
Dropbox
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FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.1 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.2 - SDK 10.6 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 45 Check version
Safari Extensions:
YouTube Center: Version: 2.0.1
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
npsf_uni: Version: sf 3.3.2.1 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player Support
Java Support
Time Machine:
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 464.96 GB Disk used: 164.13 GB
Destinations:
Data [Network] (Last used)
Total size: 2
Total number of backups: 28
Oldest backup: 2014-01-05 23:47:54 +0000
Last backup: 2014-06-16 00:52:40 +0000
Size of backup disk: Excellent
Backup size 2 > (Disk size 464.96 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
      8% mdworker
      3% SystemUIServer
      0% lowBatteryWarning
      0% WindowServer
      0% Dropbox
Top Processes by Memory:
238 MB Safari
156 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
147 MB mds_stores
131 MB systemstats
126 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
Virtual Memory Information:
2.89 GB Free RAM
3.15 GB Active RAM
1.05 GB Inactive RAM
929 MB Wired RAM
377 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs

Additional informations:
• I ran a disk repair and the message that came up was that the Macintosh HD volume seems to have no problems. But the problem still there.
• This is the results for the test that Linc suggested in other articles:
Jun 20 10:05:23 MacBook-Pro-de-Gustavo kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.
--- last message repeated 62 times ---
Jun 20 10:55:54 MacBook-Pro-de-Gustavo kernel[0] <Debug>: nspace-handler-set-snapshot-time: 1403272556
Jun 20 10:56:49 MacBook-Pro-de-Gustavo kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.
--- last message repeated 29 times ---
Jun 20 11:36:51 MacBook-Pro-de-Gustavo kernel[0] <Debug>: nspace-handler-set-snapshot-time: 1403275013
Jun 20 11:37:18 MacBook-Pro-de-Gustavo kernel[0] <Debug>: nspace-handler-unblock: did not find token 638
Jun 20 11:37:18 MacBook-Pro-de-Gustavo kernel[0] <Debug>: nspace-handler-unblock: did not find token 637
Jun 20 11:38:12 MacBook-Pro-de-Gustavo kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.
--- last message repeated 21 times ---

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HkKZU8Mfmg
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Eric
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