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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: frickster on May 18, '05 02:25:31PM

Changing the international preferences pane to show the date in the menu bar affects the way iChat registers the date/time stamp. If you have logging on, this can be frustrating, because instead of "02/02/03 10:56 PM" you get "May 8 10:56 PM" (or whatever it is you formatted your date to). Some people might not care, but I thought I'd let you know this would be affected. I'm sure this implies changes elsewhere as well.

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-frick



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: lrivers on May 18, '05 04:10:07PM

I think that if you have already customized the appearance of the clock (through the options in the Date/Time pref pane), this hint won't work properly.

Given that, and the change in date stamp behavior, perhaps submitting a feature request to Apple is in order.



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10.4: Easily add the date to the menubar
Authored by: deleted_user12 on May 18, '05 05:21:05PM

Not only iChat, but also Mail is using your customised date/time formatting for displaying the date/time of mail messages. If you set the date/time indication to sth like "wed 050505/22:00", then your mail message will have those kinds of date-stamps. For my mails I'd rather have the "full" versions. But that's just personal, perhaps.

Moreover, I suspect that customizing your International date/time sets may interact (badly) with Intego Virusbarrier. For reasons unknown to me, mine stopped working properly (quitting on startup) after I meddled with the time-menu. Reverting to the default setting settled the problem. Please don't ask me why.

After nourishing high hopes of finally having a date in my Finder menu, I'm back to the old default.

Having a real date, even for second, never felt so good.



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