Clock & Date in the System Tray - day of the week is missing
Hello,First thing : Windows 7 RC is absolutely great - Congratulations Microsoft !!!!!!There is however one (maybe stupid, but extremely useful) thing that I am missing :The day of the week in the clock area of the system tray.Now it shows :- Time- DateWould it be possible to make it show :- Day Time- DateIn which Day would be something like Mo - Tu - We - Th - Fr - Sa - SuThis would be really great.Thanks in advance for adding this to the final versionRegardsPicsoetje
May 9th, 2009 7:01pm

If you unlock the taskbar you drag the top of it up to make it "deeper". When you do this the day of the week is shown.
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May 9th, 2009 7:09pm

I use an old program called TClock lite since I don't like the larger task bar. It allows various formats of date, day, time. It only works in x86 versions though.
May 9th, 2009 7:36pm

Hey PNutts, thanks for your answer.I know that I can enlarge the taskbar, but I don't like to do that because I do not want to lose the space on my screen.I wanted to make the request to MSfor adding the "day" to the one-line taskbar.Thanks for your suggestion anyway Regards
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May 9th, 2009 7:54pm

It also depends on your font size. I have the double row taskbar (Quicklaunch on the bottom row!) but I also have fonts set to 150%. Day of the week is not shown. If I make the taksbar one more row higher, then it appears.I have 150% fonts because 1680 x 1050 isWAY too high resolution for a 15" laptop screen. Who decides this stuff anyway? The result is tiny, tiny everything on screen.
May 9th, 2009 7:55pm

Hello Lead3, thanks for your answer.I know about all these "Clock & Tray Programs".My suggestion to MS is to avoid additional "soft/add/share ware" by simply addingit to the already existing Windows 7 Clock feature :There is room enough in the first line of the clock to add 2 characters that indicate the day (mo, tu, we, th, fr, sa, su).Btw is TClock Lite 24h/day also available ?Have a nice dayPicsoetje
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May 9th, 2009 8:31pm

Hi Derosnec,I am not sure what your latest post (see above) has to do withmy initial issue :-))
May 9th, 2009 8:46pm

Yes, 24hr clock is available. You can also get this in Windows by changing it in Region and Language in the Control Panel.
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May 9th, 2009 9:01pm

Hey Lead3,Thank you so much for trying to help me.But :1. I happen to know all these things already, I am not a beginner with Windows :-)) I have been using/manipulating it since 1986 !!2. The only purpose of my initial post was to askMICROSOFT (not somebody else)if they could add the "day" to the clock in the system tray, with a 1-line task-bar : THAT'S ALL.3. I am NOT interested in alternative/shareware/whatever solutions if it is not one that comes with the Windows Operating System.Have a nice day.
May 9th, 2009 9:48pm

You have a nice day as well.
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May 9th, 2009 9:57pm

I use an old program called TClock lite since I don't like the larger task bar. It allows various formats of date, day, time. It only works in x86 versions though. Many say that, and itmay wellbe true......but there's another version of T-Clock out therewhich positively will runon 64-bitversions of Windows. For all I know, it may even run on Windows 7 (though I've not tested it yet). It certainly runs on all versions of XP, Win2K, and I believe NT. It may even run on 9x and ME (though I'm not sure of that since back when I was using those Windows versions, I was using someone else's version of T-Clock).I've been using one form/version or another (and there have been several) of the freeware T-Clock utility since back in 1995, when it first appeared. Indeed,T-Clock is the hands-down best way to make the System Tray (aka, Notification Area) clock look pretty much however one wants... and without making the taskbar vertically larger. It also boasts some other interesting and useful features upon which I've come to rely.The freeware version of T-Clock written by a guy who calls himself "Stoic Joker" is the one to have. He stripped-out some of the features which others included in their versions, leaving only the most salient of them... which most of us who have used T-Clock for so many years all agree actually made it better. It's certainly lighter and less resource-intensive.Sadly, Stoic Joker's web site, from which one would expect to be able to download his version of T-Clock, is usuallly down... for whatever reason. Er... well... it comes and goes. In an early 2009 forum posting, he mentioned having experienced some kind of catastrophic system failure which resulted, among other things, in his loss, somehow, of some of his most recent T-Clock code... so maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe, for all I know, he's given-up on T-Clock (though a communication I finally had from him relatively recently seemed to suggested that he has not). At any rate, it's difficult as the dickens, these days,to find and download a copy of Stoic Joker's version of T-Clock. That much, I do know.So, in the same spirit as he created it with no expectation of anything in return, I mounted an "unofficial" T-Clockpage from which the world may download it, and on which are some useful configuration pointers.There's no advertising on my page, no adware/malware, no gimmicks, no ulterior motives. I'm just trying to help. Period.If anyone's interested, please see: www.greggdeselms.com/tclock.htmlAnd I sure would be interested in knowing if anyone is able to get it running (and I mean correctly) on Windows 7.Hope that helps.______________________________Gregg L. DesElmsgregg[at]greggdeselms.comNapa, California
June 5th, 2009 1:47am

Hello Picsoe,First, thank you for your feedback!I'm a tester onthe Windows Globalization Services team, and I work onvarious locale data, including date and time formats.We don't directly own howdate and time n the system tray, so I don't have a perfect solution for you, unfortunately.Having said that, I'd like to offer one in-box solution.As Lead3 alluded (thank you Lead3), you can modify a short date format to include day of the week in the Date tab in Regional and Language Options. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317787(VS.85).aspxexplains the available formats.In this case, you can adddddto make the display something likebelow.- 3:33PM- Mon 7/20/2009Would this be acceptable for your case?(Maybe not. I still hope others who may have similar needs find this info useful.)Thank you,ShuWindows Globalization Services TestThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. OR if you wish to include a script sample in your post please add "Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm"
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July 21st, 2009 2:06am

Would this be acceptable for your case? Hello Shu,I have followed your instructions succesfully - thank you so much for your help !The date in my System tray looks exactly the way I want it now. 7:37dinsdag 21 juliI wish I could add the seconds to the time as well, but I did not succeed so far.Anyway, thanks again for your great help.Have a nice day.Regards Picsoe
July 21st, 2009 8:41am

Hello Picsoe, First, thank you for your feedback! I'm a tester on the Windows Globalization Services team, and I work on various locale data, including date and time formats. We don't directly own how date and time n the system tray, so I don't have a perfect solution for you, unfortunately. Having said that, I'd like to offer one in-box solution. As Lead3 alluded (thank you Lead3), you can modify a short date format to include day of the week in the Date tab in Regional and Language Options. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317787(VS.85).aspx explains the available formats. In this case, you can add ddd to make the display something like below. - 3:33PM - Mon 7/20/2009 Would this be acceptable for your case? (Maybe not. I still hope others who may have similar needs find this info useful.) Thank you, Shu Windows Globalization Services Test This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. OR if you wish to include a script sample in your post please add "Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm " 証 The problem with this solution is that even though it makes for a fabulous systray clock, it also changes your short date format in every other app that uses it too. That's a bit painful. Being able to choose a date format that doesn't affect the rest of your system would be brilliant!
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November 4th, 2010 8:33am

Shu: Thanks for the tip! Worked great! :-) T. McMahon
September 16th, 2011 5:03pm

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