09 December 2008

iCal duh

While talking to a new Mac user about how we both hate that the clock in the menu bar doesn’t show the date (unless you click on it), I realized something. In Leopard, they modified the iCal icon in the Dock to show the current date even when iCal isn’t running. I knew this, yet I didn’t think of looking at it when I wanted to know the date.

2 comments:

Craig Weeks said...

Hey, that's too close to confession. Let's just keep sayin' it's the designer's fault.

Anonymous said...

If you want the date to show, you can change the 'Medium' format to include it:

See here for details.