How to display the date in OSX Leopard Menu Bar
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If you don’t want to fumble around just to learn the current date, you can display it in Leopard’s Menu Bar, right by the clock, to always have under your eyes.
What I did was to follow TUAW’s tutorial, but here’s a quick summary, just in case you’re in a hurry:
1. in System Preferences, International, Formats submenu. Select Customize date, then chose the format you want, and COPY it (select all, Cmd+C).
2. Press Ok, then from the same window, Customize for the Times part. Move the cursor before the time format, press Cmd+V(Paste). Press OK.
Easy peasy.
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Great trick! Make sure you have the show option set to ‘Medium’ and not ‘Short’.
I had to set the show option to ‘Long’ for it to work for me.
btw: it affects how the date/time is displayed in iCal. Also, these fields should be labeled as required if they are.
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Thanks. Like Josh I found it works only in Long on OSX 10.5.7
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