Date and time in your menu bar

I had a lot of trouble with this initially. But the comments in here are accurate. I had success editting the Medium format of the Times section. But if you've tried and haven't gotten results, you can reset the formats in the Region drop down and try again. Once I reset and tried again, it worked fine. Also, using Unix date format speeds things up, thanks to Julien Collot.

WARNING! This hack can play havoc with iCal. If you have used it - go look at iCal just to make sure it's not impacted in a negative way for you (I had to reset due to it's alterations).

I'll add my vote for turning off Apple's time and date display and putting wClock in your startup items. It just works, and has a pop-up calendar as well. http://www.wolfware.com/wClock.html Why do people link to macupdate or versiontracker instead of the actual web site of the product they are talking about?

Seems to be a Tiger-only hack as the listed choices just aren't there in 10.3.9 Just a suggestion, but can this be mentioned in future? This is about the third cool hack that I have looked at from your links that turned out to be Tiger-specific. Maybe I'm the only holdout, but I am waiting to find something in Tiger worth $100 to me...

I had that problem the first time I tried editing the format... I tried again and got it working though...

When I try and do this GMT appears on the menu bar after time and the date is not displayed. I have tried all the tricks explained above restarting etc. Could some one help me? Thanks in advance. Cheers

very nice trick, thank you! i've always wondered why the date would not appear.

OK, I tried a few things, and I can give everyone a few details (and improved tips) as to how this works. First thing, you have to modify the "Medium" length setting for the time, otherwise nothing will work. Then, the cool part. OS X uses Unix Standard (I think) notation for date/time formats, i.e., the following notation : "Sat, Dec 3 2005, 5:00 PM" is actually made up of replacements to the string "EEE, MMM d yyyy, h:mm a". For advanced editing, you just need to type these strings in the field instead of drag and dropping elements, and there you have it, magical formating customized to your own needs ! If you need more info as to how an element is coded by Mac OSX, just click the element, copy it, post it into TextEditor, and there it is...

Anyone know if this will stick between restarts, or will it need to done each time machine starts up? I works great for me. I appreciate the tip...

Works like a charm. Need to make sure you adjust the format size to med. format!