iCal Icon in Dock shows wrong date with Snow Leopard

I too have the same problem - except my date is stuck on 17 July. I'm fairly new to the Mac and started to doubt my sanity that the date did change every day!. The problem started with upgrade to Snow Leopard. Will try your fix.

Exact same, really annoying, problem! Thanks for the tip!

I have tried that and no change. Ical still shows 17th July when closed. I have also tried deleting the plists for ical in my user library and allowing them to be rebuilt the next time ical starts...but still no joy. I have copied these plists from another Mac in the home that has the changing date in Snow Leopard but still no joy - permissions repaired too...

All suggestions welcomed 🙂

I simply followed the above and it worked for me...

Thanks for the tip—very grateful. The iCal icon on my iMac was sticking but the one on my MacBook Air was fine. Now they're both behaving properly.

I have reset my PRAM and from the install disk done a repair disk and a repair permissions - but still the date in the dock is the 17th July !! any suggestions anyone?? and yes I have tried dragging it off and dragging it back from Apps but again no change 😟

This doesn't work for me. If I remove the iCal icon from the dock, and replace it, the date appears correctly. But it'll stay with that date all the time (unless its open) until I repeat that step.

Something was clearly broken in Snow Leopard, since this was never a problem for me in Leopard.

I bit the bullet and did a complete hard drive formatting clean install

That fixed it !!

have you waited 24hrs? If not, wait 'til tomorrow and see if its still doing the same thing; that's what I've found is that it'll keep displaying the date that it was added to the dock, whenever that happens to be.

Hi, I had the same problem [closed iCal date stuck at 17 July] and tried the answers above, which didn't help at all. This answer found at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=395610 did the trick.

First, All applications (except Finder) must be closed.
On the Finder menu bar, click on "Go," then on "Home."
Go into the Library folder
Delete the Caches folder > *I only deleted the com.apple.iCal folder*
Go into the Library / Preferences folder
Delete the files: com.apple.iApps.plist; com.apple.iCal.helper.plist; and com.apple.iCal.plist
Restart system

Unfortunately these fixes do not stick, i.e. issue not resolved, not answered. After doing the suggestions, problem reappears after a day. This is on a pre-installed SL. Annoying little bug that can wreak havoc in your accounting department. Looking for a fix, still...

i had the same problem and it went away when i updated to 10.6.2

That I can see

I have 10.6.2 and the problem is still there...