On OS X, it's fairly easy to get the menubar's clock to display the date as well. Maybe it's possible in Windows, I don't know. But I do know that if you mouse over the time in the system tray, Windows is supposed to tell you the date in one of Windows' highly obnoxious "tooltips". [An aside: the word "tooltip" is horrible. It feels like a word a programmer would invent just because he needed some word to describe 'a small box with supplementary information which appears upon hovering over an item without clicking' and "tooltip" was the first thing that came to mind. Seriously, why "tooltip"??]
Getting to the annoyance which caused this particular post: as you can see, the tooltip doesn't render on my system. More than half of it is stuck behind the system tray, making it basically illegible (it says Friday, July 13, 2007 if you're wondering). Gotta love it!
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I too often wish the date was there. seriously! I need the date visible much more than yet another clock. and sometimes the mouse over just doesn't work so i have to open the little calender settings window just to find the date.
I'm so glad you have a whole blog dedicated to things like this. I have noticed them somewhere, vaguely, but never would have put them into words (or blog form, for that matter). Besides, it helps reinforce my image of you as a crusader for rationality and sanity in this crazy world.
There is a solution. Inelegant perhaps, but a solution nonetheless.
Unlock the taskbar (and expose those awful dotted line dividers and resizing bar). Double the taskbar's height. Now you should see time, day of the week and date. Unfortunately, you now see twice the blue.
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Also unrelated: it gets old but starts great.
It's called a tooltip because they were introduced for the icons on toolbars. Perhaps you don't like that word either.
For some reason, tooltip bothers me much more than toolbar. But you make a good point, toolbar is a rather obnoxious word as well. Hmm...
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