Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Get the date in your OS X menubar

I noticed today that Tim had the day of the month in his Mac's clock display, which I've wanted for a long time (I look at my watch for the date at least three times a day, because it's not the sort of thing I bother to remember, but should be).

To get this is kind of tricky: you go to System Preferences > International > Formats. Click "Customize" in the Dates area, select any date-related fields you want, and copy them to your system clipboard. Then, go back and click "Customize" in the Times area, and choose "Medium". Then, paste in the fields and massage formatting to your heart's content. Et voila, you can have the date fields available in your menubar, beyond just the day of the week.

1 comment:

  1. Do you know if its possible to get *two* clocks in the menubar? I want to see UTC time as well.

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