How do we get the year to show in the menu bar?
I need it for reference (duh) as well as screen shots for auditing purposes.
On latest Sonoma version on M1.
There is no adjustment in Control Center, Menu Bar, Clock setting.
Incredibly, it actually shows the year in the Date & Time settings!
Mac mini (M1, 2020)
There is no provision in Sonoma to show the year in the Date/Time field of the menu bar. If you want an on demand year notification, you can simply click the Calendar app in your Dock, or with more effort, add a Desktop widget named for a Shortcuts application that sends in a Notification of the current year.
where the shortcut itself contains the following workflow:
and by pressing F6, and clicking the Shortcut widget named The Year,
the following dismissable Notification drifts in…
There is no provision in Sonoma to show the year in the Date/Time field of the menu bar. If you want an on demand year notification, you can simply click the Calendar app in your Dock, or with more effort, add a Desktop widget named for a Shortcuts application that sends in a Notification of the current year.
where the shortcut itself contains the following workflow:
and by pressing F6, and clicking the Shortcut widget named The Year,
the following dismissable Notification drifts in…
You mean to tell us you don't know what year you are living in and the date is not enough? Send Feedback requesting the feature. If enough other users do the same Apple may consider it.
Apple does provision for Accessibly Features in macOS 14 Sonoma for Vision, Hearing, Motor, Speech and General
Refer to link below
Get started with accessibility features on Mac
For some time now, one can use the Reminder Application, in this case to remember you to check the Year.
It can be set to remind the user at a schedule you choose, hourly, daily and to run at a specific time including when the computer is set to startup
There are many reasons. Most of all, for screen shots, as I said in the post.
But to question a need to see the year (which, BTW, a feature that was oddly removed) is very short sighted and a bit ableist. Customers with memory loss from covid, chemo therapy, migraine, and other medical conditions just, need to see the full date and time together. So simple… so not needing to be insulting to anyone.
I did send feedback.
Thanks but, wow, all that and yet, all Apple has to do is let the user show the year in the finder menu with the date and time and the only effort is to move the eyeballs.
New feature in macIS Sonoma
Siri what year is it ?
Nate the deletion of Hey Siri requirement
Unless you have a no mic Mac like a mini (and no open USB for it) or aphasia.
Check out itsycal, which allows you to customize the display to include year - and see if it works for you:
https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
"Itsycal can optionally accept a datetime pattern which it will use to show the current date and/or time next to its icon in the menu bar. For example, if y is used for the year, yy might produce 17 whereas yyyy produces 2017. "
https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/datetime.html
MtD
Want to know the year with a fast glance? Forget it on a mac.
