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Taskbar does not show date

Anonymous
2013-11-21T01:31:53+00:00

I have always had the Taskbar on left side of screen with the Taskbar properties set or “checked” to “Lock” and “Auto-hide” the Taskbar. (Windows 8 Pro)

The Taskbar now only shows the time and NOT the date.  A month ago it showed both the time and date.  That is what I like.  That is the default way it was out of the box.  Now, to see the date on Taskbar I have to click the clock.

I do not know why it changed to only show the time and not the date. 

I want to return it to the way the Taskbar was originally showing both the time and date.  How do I do that?

I have a i7 haswell midtower, 15GB memory, 2TB HD & Windows 8 Pro.

Thanks for the help

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-11-21T16:31:55+00:00

    Hi,

    This could be because, you might have opted to have the small buttons on the Taskbar from its properties.  If you uncheck the option to have small buttons on the Taskbar, then that would increase the taskbar size and will display the date with the time on the notification area on the taskbar. You may follow these steps:

    a)       Right click on the Taskbar and select “Properties”.

    b)       On the “Taskbar” tab, uncheck the option “Use small Taskbar buttons”.

    c)        Click on “Apply” and then “OK”.

    d)       Now check if that display the date with the time on the notification area.

    Hope this is helpful.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-22T01:53:40+00:00

    Rajesh Govind, your suggestion of using larger tray icons to make the taskbar wider helped me to figure out how to fix this.  I went to taskbar properties, unchecked the “Lock the taskbar”.  Grab the edge of taskbar with mouse and pulled it wider by two millimeters and the date appeared.  I went back to taskbar properties, checked the “Lock the taskbar”.  Done.  Problem solved.

    Thank you Rajesh Govind, I would not have thought of the solution without you. 

    Now I need to figure out why the width of the taskbar changed when it was locked.  A very minor issue.  Not important.  I now know how to fix it if it happens again. 

    Thanks for your help.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-02-28T20:44:12+00:00

    I just figured out how to fix this, well at least show the date.

    The short date must me "M/d/yyyy" not "M/d/yyyy dddd"

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-29T06:25:54+00:00

    I did this by experimenting how to show the date in the windows 10 taskbar, and this worked. I left the “use small taskbar buttons option in the taskbar settings unchecked.

    Make sure the short and long date formats match in both windows:

    The Region window: (Settings; Date and time; Additional date, time & regional settings; change date, time or number formats)

    and the Change date and time formats: (Settings; Date and time)

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-12-12T11:04:03+00:00

    I think, Just resizing your taskbar will solve your problem, increase width.

    Remember to uncheck: Lock the Taskbar (right click taskbar)

    thanks good luck

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