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Authored by: RichB on Dec 05, '01 01:43:47AM

Thanks for something that was always missing from OS 9! I hated having to click the time just to see the date. Desktop Calendar is nice but usually hidden behind open windows.

To conserve valuable menu bar real estate I have gone to the really abbreviated day of the month format (%e). The day number toggles on and off with the preference setting for "Show day of the week" as expected. It would be nice to also see the day of the week. I don't understand why the weekday doesn't show with this date macro.

In other words, originally it was "Tues 11:00" and then with changing %a to %x it became "Tues Dec 04 2001 11:00". Now changing %x to %e it is simply "4 11:00". It seems odd the weekday is included with %x.



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