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Big Sur: How to remove date from menu bar?

When I go to "System Preference" -> "Dock & Menu Bar" -> "Clock: Menu Bar Only", there are checkboxes you can uncheck that say "Show day of week" and "Show date".


When I uncheck them, a little preview visual shows the date disappearing from the previewed menu bar. But the menu bar itself doesn't change.


I record a lot of video content and don't want the actual date of recording visible. Surely this is a wide enough use case that this apparent non-functioning preference feature needs to be fixed? Does anyone know if there's a Terminal command that can force the visual date to disappear?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Mar 28, 2021 2:34 PM

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Mar 28, 2021 2:53 PM in response to FoxFifth

That is so strange!! Am attaching a pic just to prove to folks that unchecking the box does not change the menu bar for me... you can see the "preview" shows only the time, but my actual menu bar shows the date.


I am also on 11.2.3 and no System Updates are available. Thank you though for noting it works correctly for you -- I wonder what can possibly be different between the systems.


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Mar 28, 2021 2:54 PM in response to dialabrain

dialabrain wrote:

FWIW, unchecking "Show the day of the week" and "Show date" works for me as well in Big Sur 11.2.3.

If all else fails you can switch "Time Options:" to Analog.


Time Options to Analog also does nothing! It's like my menu bar is stuck with that setting. When I try other Menu settings, like removing the "Spotlight" icon, that works fine.


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