tray clock showing date

I've tried and tried and just can't find it.
Is it possible to have my tray clock showing date aswell? Like it was in xp?

Hi Nicolai,

Does your tray clock not pop up the date when you move your mouse cursor over it? Other than trying a 3rd party program, I don't know of another way to have the date show on the tray clock.

Regards,
Shawn

yea it does show when i hover, i would have just prefered to always have it there.
Thank you.

Hi Nicolai,

I looked for a free tray clock program, but none that I found were for Vista or were only trial ware. Best bet might be to try a Sidebar clock gadget.

Regards,
Shawn

If you have the real estate, pull your task bar up one notch to double height (you have to unlock it first). You will get the time, day, and date; plus more room on your task bar.

Hi larryk,

Thank you. I never noticed that before, but you have to unlock your taskbar to drag it up another level. You can then lock it back afterwards Nicolai.

Date and Time

Thanks again,
Shawn

Hah, to think it was that easy. It's ironic, in XP i've always run with the taskbar double height. For some reason i hadn't resized it after i installed Vista.

Thanks.

You did say you wanted to see the "date", right? Not the "day"?

I tried this, but all I get are the time and the day of the week, e.g.:

1:20 AM
Sunday

Is there a way to always see the date, too, without having to mouse over? If not, does anyone know of a good free app that lets you customize the system-tray clock? (Please don't ask me to use the new sidebar gizmo thing; ick.) Thanks.

As stated above, pull your taskbar up to double height. The date should appear. --ch

Ah, you mean triple height (so three rows show). Yes, then the date appears—but you lose that extra band of real estate clear across the screen. For some reason, MS's clock has a bunch of unnecessary space between its lines.

Certainly someone's created a clock that shows all that data, but makes better use of the vertical space?