Windows 10: Show long date format or how to allow for Day to show without keyboard use nonstop in...

Show long date format or how to allow for Day to show without keyboard use nonstop in Windows 11 taskbar lower right corner:Show long date format in taskbar in Windows 11 - Microsoft CommunityThere is a similar thread which was recently closed that I could not follow.The suggestion by the MVP and other volunteers do not resolve the issue, the one which Flavio accepts in the end is confusing for me as I cannot edit the short date format- it is a drop down option only with no edits possible and I am also concerned about the side effects as to Quicken et al with change of short date format as i

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Show long date format in taskbar in Windows 11

It seems to only show the short day format, how do I show the long day format?

 

Long Date Not showing in Taskbar

Ah, I see what you're doing now. You are actually changing the short date format to be the same as the long date format. That's not possible through the Settings app - perhaps for good reason

You could try a single 'd' for the numeric day bit. That supresses the leading zero, but still shows double-digit dates. You may see 'Wednesdays' for the early part of the month, at least.

 

Long Date Not showing in Taskbar

I checked those settings before and they are for how to display each format. But I still don't see an option to select whether to display the long or short format in the system tray. I prefer the short, long just takes up too much space for me.

Anyway, after rebooting after the update finished, I still didn't have the date showing for Wednesdays. I changed how short format displays (to mimick long format) and that worked, and then changed it back to the short display and bingo, that finally popped up the date in the short display for me even for Wednesday. Hopefully it didn't break the other 6 days of the week! *Biggrin