Date not showing in calendar icon (El Capitan 10.11.3)

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Date not showing in calendar icon (El Capitan 10.11.3)

Hello Everyone, I just called under my AppleCare account because with El Capitan 10.11.3 the current date no longer appears in the iCAL icon in the dock. I always found that useful with my old MacBookPro because you could just look at the icon to get the date (the top bar is crowded, harder to read).

The help desk checked the iCAL application (which I had already done) but couldn't find anything, and then took me to System Preferences --> Language and Religiion --> and there we set the region (I forget exactly what we did), but the icon then updated to the correct date. But, the next day, the date had not updated.

I just reproduced this: change the region to France and then back again to Germany, and, yes, now the date is correct.

Has anyone else this problem and a solution?

Thanks!

Slade

Posted on Feb 14, 2016 11:40 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 5, 2017 8:03 AM in response to Dalroi123

I doubt it! I still have the problem. However it did not show up until November of 2016. I always keep my OS up to date by installing updates.

As I was writing this.... I updated the system preferences under Region to United States (computer) and the date icon updated... We will see if tomorrow that is the fix!

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Answer 2

Jan 6, 2017 4:40 AM in response to Red Rock Rick

I checked the icon on the very next morning and it did not change automatically at midnight. I went back into the System Preferences - Region & Language and switched from United States (computer) to United States and the icon updated. So no fix yet ! :-(

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AppleJoe

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Feb 16, 2016 7:58 AM in response to sladetales

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 AppleJoe

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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AppleJoe

Community Manager

Feb 17, 2016 1:14 PM in response to sladetales

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

Best

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Answer 6

Mar 8, 2016 5:33 AM in response to sladetales

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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Answer 7

Aug 16, 2016 12:18 PM in response to sladetales

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?

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Answer 8

Jan 5, 2017 8:05 AM in response to AppleJoe

I had the same issue. The default is "greyed out" - so I tried the work around. I went to United States (computer) and it updated. I will see if this fixes it when the date changes tomorrow.

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