Menu Bar won't display the day of the week with the date

John Mollick wrote:

Thanks -- I'm down to only the control center... no day.

Like I said, I think it needs a pref reset or something...

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/c008b635-a634-4ca3-b770-8e4bcfa303a9

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It is unusual issue I have not seen here—

and you tried the SafeBoot to clear caches and sort oddities like yours...(?)

If a corrupt plist  delete the com.apple.systempreferences.plist

Finder>Go>Go to Folder    copy and paste:

 ~/Library/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

reboot or in terminal copy and paste:

 killall Dock

did you try—

Set it manually date and time in System Settings, no harm there—the option is toggle OFF "Automatically."

compare your results—  I would do what works.  

if no resolve —

from the Terminal.app if a d&t plist issue copy & paste:

sudo rm /var/db/timed/com.apple.timed.plist

(note—your psswd will not echo on screen type it in anyway, use the enter\return key to proceed. Quit Terminal.)

Reboot and compare your results.

Try booting into Safe Mode then restart normally. Sometimes that will fix anomalies.

Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

John Mollick wrote:

Menu Bar won't display the day of the week with the date, just day of the week with the time.

This hasn't changed since Sonoma. It can't be because there is no space (17 menu icons total)...

17 is a big number.

remove the clutter on the Menubar and make room for what you really need/ or want to see.

hold the Command key and drag items off

I also have 10 items and the day of the week is visible.

Perhaps try turning off show date and then turning it back on again?

Sorry but I don’t see the problem. I have a MacBook Air M4 13-inch, with settings show date when space allows, show the day of the week enabled on, time style digital, display the time with seconds enabled and I see “Wed 17 Sep 20:18:47”

As Leroy points out, 17 is a lot, especially on a MBP screen. I have 10 which I thought was a lot on an iMac. The day of the week shows for me.

M4 Pro bp 14 running 26.0:

Same setting I had in Sequoia.