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iCal shows current date in the dock Apps
After starting iCal, its dock icon shows the real date! If you add iCal to the Login Items preference pane (mark the hide box), after every login you can see today's date in the dock.
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yet stupidly...
Authored by: sinjin on Sep 12, '02 01:36:50PM

it doesn't update the date until you quit the program and restart. So after a couple of days of using it my iCal still thinks it is Sept 10. It also chooses the wrong "current" day within the program until you choose "go to today" from the calendar menu.

Me thinks this is a tad sloppy.



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A better suggestion
Authored by: karim on Sep 12, '02 03:47:07PM

If you want to see the current date (and time) in the dock then you should add the Clock Application to your Login items. You can view a digital or analog clock. The Digital Clock displays the current date and time.



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Works for me
Authored by: tormente on Sep 12, '02 08:45:07PM

On my system, the date on iCal changes to current date the moment I launch it.



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Works for me
Authored by: below on Sep 13, '02 02:41:00AM

That is exactly the point: When you launch it. Like many people (and according to the Apple manual), I leave my machine on 24/7, only putting it in sleep mode when I do not use it.
I do not quit programs like mail, or would not like to quit iCal. But it seems I have to in order to get the date right :(

Alex



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date updates here
Authored by: AMacAddict on Sep 13, '02 09:41:11AM

I saw the "iCal icon does not update at midnight" bug in the KnowledgeBase, but for some reason, my iCal does update overnight, changing to the correct date...



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Use Calindock
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Sep 12, '02 05:54:16PM
It's a free dockling that shows the date in either Daily or Monthly format, and you can go forward or backward 1, 3, 6 or 12 months.



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Correct date in Dock icon even when you quit!
Authored by: tormente on Sep 12, '02 08:49:24PM

When you keep iCal in the dock - iCal also keeps the correct date even when you quit it!
Cool! :)



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Correct date in Dock icon even when you quit!
Authored by: osxpounder on Feb 10, '06 03:03:50PM

Mine doesn't. Never has, as far as I can recall. Definitely isn't doing it on two different Macs running Tiger.

The iCal icon in the Dock only shows the correct date while iCal is running. The moment I quit it, the Dock icon reverts to "Jul 17".

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