Show date in menubar clock

[ivanpasic]

Again lost the date in menubar clock in the latest beta (6). Anyone has terminal command line to restore the date? It was posted in an early thread on Big Sur back in June but I can't find them....

 

[nutmac]

Menu bar options are all grayed out. Deleting "com.apple.menuextra.clock.plist" might help, provided the menubar defaults to showing the date.

 

[ivanpasic]

Menu bar options are all grayed out. Deleting "com.apple.menuextra.clock.plist" might help, provided the menubar defaults to showing the date.

Yes, indeed. Someone posted earlier Terminal commands that fixed this issue. Can't find it though...

 

[ivanpasic]

Menu bar options are all grayed out. Deleting "com.apple.menuextra.clock.plist" might help, provided the menubar defaults to showing the date.

Found it!!!


Fixed it for now. Had to fire up terminal and use the following. The changes didn't take effect until I opened up the Date and Time preference panel and selected the Time Zone tab. I rebooted and the changes seemed to stick. If you don't want seconds you can omit the ':ss' as shown below.

With seconds:

defaults write com.apple.menuextra.clock "DateFormat" "EEE MMM d h:mm:ss"

Without seconds:

defaults write com.apple.menuextra.clock "DateFormat" "EEE MMM d h:mm"

 

[brsilb]

Thanks, mine worked as soon as I entered the command, no reboot, etc.