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Feb 16, 2016 7:58 AM in response to sladetalesby joe_7399,Greetings sladetales,
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that you have previously troubleshot this situation where the Calendar in your Dock is not showing the correct date. It seems you can resolve this for a short time by switching the region, but the issue returns.
To continue troubleshooting, I would suggest working through the steps in the following article to Restore Defaults in Language & Region.
Date and time formats are user account-specific, so one user account might see the correct date modified on a file, while another user on the same might see an incorrect date modified on the same file.
To determine if you are seeing incorrect dates or times because of a custom date or time format use these steps:
OS X Yosemite and Mavericks
- Open System Preferences.
- From the View menu, choose Language & Region.
- Click the Advanced button.
- Click the Dates tab.
- Click the Restore Defaults button.
- Click the Times tab.
- Click the Restore Defaults button.
- Click OK.
- Quit the app where you were seeing incorrect dates or times displayed.
- Open the app again, and verify that the dates and times are now displayed correctly.
If the wrong date or time is displayed in some apps on your Mac - Apple Support
Have a great day!
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Feb 17, 2016 12:52 PM in response to joe_7399by sladetales,Dear joe_7399,
Thanks so much for your answer, but I am afraid I am still stuck:
1) When I open System Preferences
and go to Language & Region
and click on Advanced
and click on Dates,
I do not have the option to "Restore Defaults,"
nor do I have this option under Times. (See screen shot).
2) As I mentioned, when I go back to Language & Region and change the region to somwhere else and then back to Germany, the correct date appears in my Dock in the iCAL icon. But tomorrow it will not update (which has its advantages: I don't get older, according to my iCAL icon...)
Many thanks! Slade
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Feb 17, 2016 1:14 PM in response to sladetalesby joe_7399,Thank you for replying and letting us know the results.
At this point, because the previous steps didn't work as expected, I would suggest contacting AppleCare directly. Contacting Apple Support will allow us to look into this specific situation deeper and provide you the best support possible.
Contact Apple Support - Apple Support
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Mar 8, 2016 5:33 AM in response to sladetalesby debfromwest lafayette,I struggled also with this for days. Followed suggestions to remove iCal from dock and reinstall from Applications. This did not work. Just found your tip go to : "System Preferences --> Language and Religiion --> and there we set the region" and followed it. I changed region to France and then changed back to Americas ----> United States. Presto! Ical in dock is updated now!
Thank you!
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Aug 16, 2016 12:18 PM in response to sladetalesby Dalroi123,I found it also helps to change the calendar format from Gregorian to ISO 8601in the same panel where you can change the region. I have a custom region, didn't want to go through the hoops of setting that all up again and this turned out to be a good alternative.
Still, it's only a workaround. There's clearly a bug here that needs to be fixed. Is that being worked on?

