Is that a block of dead pixels above the calendar icon?

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Well, since it doesn't seem that you ever quit an app, can't one make an asumption that iCal/Calendar is always on, and, therefore, always shows the correct date?

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Yeah - its nice - but here is what would make the home screen even better:

Update the "Weather" and "Clock" apps to be accurate. In other words, have the weather not be 73 and sunny all the time - but reflect the weather in your first configured weather location. Have the clock reflect the current time. Also nice would be the ability to set a "home" in the maps app and have that icon show you your "home" instead of Infinite Loop.

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> virtually every mobile phone's home screen provides easy access to the time and date, [...] it would be nice if iCal in Mac OS X could [...] display the proper date in a Dock icon.

I don't think so: a launch-icon is not a widget that should act on its own. On the contrary, the icon for a running program has the right to act, it is part of the program. If you want the date, the place you should be able to find it is the "date and time" thingy in the menu bar (even though it does not display by default).

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You could set iCal to be a Startup App in your login prefs. That way, whenever you log in, it would automatically update the date. If you do not want to see the calendar come up, check the "Hide" checkbox when adding iCal to your Startup Apps list.

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I just with the weather icon would update the same was. I know that the date doesnt require network access, but it would still be nice.

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Dock icons can only be modified by their running process so this would require iCal (or an iCal proxy app) to be running at all times. Seeing how worked-up some people get over Dashboard being "always on" leads me to believe that solving the iCal problem would introduce the same irrational ire (and a MacOSXHints article on how to "disable" iCal).

macxprt's comment above is probably the most sane solution.

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iPhone does use Leopard, though, so its definitely more advanced than what my MacBook is currently running. I bet it is reflected properly in the final build of Leopard.

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As of now my iCal icon does display 2 July in OS X...

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Hahaha. David, I thought I was the only person that hated the dock icon doing that.

macxprt, doesn't ical still hang around in memory or virtual memory, when you do that? Seems like a big load just to get an icon to switch. But I don't use the program much.

Jason, I think that's dust.

Speaking of weather, the generic weather widget switches from my city and state to another city with the same name, every time I launch it, giving me totally wrong readings. And yes, I make sure I specify my city and state, or zip code, which it then re-writes as just the wrong city, again, when I restart the widget. So I just use Meteo.

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Is there any place where we can see the iPhones calendar in action? I'd like to see the different views.

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I am a "glass half full" kind of person and so the way I see it the dock icon does display the correct date...once a year :)

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All Apple need to do is generate a new icon on the filesystem whenever the date changes.

[)amien

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iCal displays the corect date if it is running, and if it is closed it does not.

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Interestingly the "up to date" icons works in DragThing, iCal running or not. I dunno why it doesn't work in the Dock... kinda lame tough.

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Personally, I don't mind the July 17 icon. That's my wedding anniversary. :-) But I usually have iCal running so it's a moot point for me.

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Here's another option kind of in the same vein as macxprt:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030214163614514

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Amen! I've always been bugged by iCal's icon not updating to the correct date, even when it's not running. If I recall, the similar calendar in the NeXT dock displayed the current date...

Mostman's idea is excellent; it'd be great if the main menu weather button also headlined the current weather in your default/main weather widget location.

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I agree that it's preposterous that the iCal dock icon doesn't display the proper date. I should have to use some workaround for that. Hopefully it's fixed in Leopard.

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