Windows 7 shows both date as well as time in system tray because of the new superbar.
Did you know you can customize it and can show the day and month names as well?
Here is a small tutorial which will tell you how to customize the date shown in system tray in Windows 7:
1. Type intl.cpl in RUN or start menu search box and press Enter. It'll open Regional and Language Options window.
2. Now click on "Addition Settings" button.
3. Go to "Date" tab and you'll see the value of "Short date" will be set to dd-MM-yyyy.
You can customize it to show day and month names. Here:
d stands for day
m stands for month
y stands for year
You can use these 3 alphabets to customize the date. Following are some examples of customized date:
d-m-y will show 10-1-9
dd-mm-yy will show 10-01-09
ddd-mmm-yyy will show Sat-Jan-2009
dddd-mmmm-yyyy will show Saturday-January-2009
I hope you got the idea behind it. You can use any of the above combination to customize the date format. For example you can use:
ddd dd-MMM-yyyy
To show:
Sat 10-Jan-2009
4. You can also change the separator - to some other symbol or can remove it completely like ddd dd MMM yyyy
5. Once you finish customizing the date format, click on Apply button and you have done:
Isn't it cool?
PS: If you want to show only Time and not Date in Windows 7 superbar, then use following value for "Short date":
ddd dd MMMM yyyy
NOTE: If you want to hide Time in system tray, put a blank space in "Long time" text box under "Time" tab.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Windows 7.
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vajlent
Is this possible in Vista to?
VG
^^ If you increase the taskbar height or use Large Icons in quick launch toolbar, then you can get the same in Vista.
vajlent
For me just the time 18.xx and Monday shows up.
Not like in the picture above, Mon 26-Jan-2009.
And I have increased the hight of the taskbar because I use the Win7 theme for Vista and have large icons in quick-launch.
VG
^^ Then I think its not possible in Vista.
Amirz
Wow really awesome tweak as always VG! Thanks alot! :) U Rock n Roll! Too bad it's not possible on Vista but nevermind
Johnny
the value to make it only show time dosent seem to work for me... any ideas??
Vishu
ddd dd MMMM yyyy won't hide the date for me, nor will dddd dd MMMM yyyy.
any ideas how to actually hide the date, but not the clock, from the taskbar (with large icons on)?
jon
Just want to know how to make the date show up in the tray..don't really see anything about that here.
Effy
PS: If you want to show only Time and not Date in Windows 7 superbar, then use following value for "Short date":
ddd dd MMMM yyyy
Dustin
Just what I was looking for! Awesome!