iStat Menus 2.0

The good news is that iStat Menus 2 brings compatibility with Snow Leopard. This has long been one of my freeware favourites because of its ability to customize the the date and time in the menu bar — not to mention providing a handy popdown calendar.

The bad news is that I can’t get it to install, and I’m not the only one. So here’s hoping for a fix.

It’s long been a pet peeve of mine that Macs were incapable of showing both the date and time in the menu bar. And with Snow Leopard, it’s becoming an obsession. Yes, you can now display the date along with the time, but only in a truncated version (e.g. Thu Sep 3) that is hardly in keeping with the elegance of the system. To get a proper date (e.g. Thursday, September 3, 2009), you have to click on the menu bar. Why not just have it show up this way in the first place?

date posted Posted Thursday, September 3, 2009 in

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  1. You can add the full date and time in the menubar in any way you wish (in Tiger and Leopard) simply by going into the International prefs pane and customizing the time settings. The same can be done in Snow Leopard right in the Date/Time prefs pane.

    No need for any extra utilities, etc.

    Jim

  2. I’d love to be proved wrong, but I’m pretty sure I’m right. See this Macworld article about a quarter of the way down. While it’s true you can configure date formats in the Language & Text preference, it has no effect on what is displayed in the menu bar.

    Mark





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