How to show weekday in Windows 10 clock in taskbar?

Question

In all windowses before 10 I could just pull the taskbar up and I could see which day it is:

But when doing that in Windows 10 it doesn't work:

How can I get my weekday back without having to hover over the clock?

Answer 1

The weekday will be shown on your horizontal taskbar when you either

• Have Small Taskbar Icons enabled and the Taskbar is at least 3 rows high or
• Have Small Taskbar Icons disabled and the Tasbar is at least 2 rows high

If you use the vertical taskbar

• You need to have it at least 80 pixels wide @ 100% scaling

If you can't pull on your taskbar to resize it right-click it and uncheck Lock all taskbars

Answer 2

• Go to: Control panel -> Clock and region -> Region
• in Region 'Format' tab go to 'Additional settings'
• in the date format box you can change short date. My format is : M/dd-ddd

Answer 3

You can use https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock for this, it provides many other options beside custom formats for the clock

Answer 4

If you unlock the taskbar and make it a little bigger, it will show the day:

To unlock the taskbar: click Start then the settings icon, go to Taskbar Settings:

And turn "Lock the Taskbar" off:

Answer 5

Go to taskbar properties & UN-check "Use small taskbar button". When you use the small taskbar buttons there is not enough room for the date unless you increase the taskbar size.

Answer 6

This fix works, but does screw up usage of the short date format in other programs, such as Outlook, Word, Excel etc. These negative effects, however, are reduced (maybe even eliminated) if you put the "ddd" insert at the END of the short date format. I'm using "M/d/yyyy - ddd" and it doesn't seem to carryover into the other programs in the same way as when I put the "ddd" string at the beginning.

Answer 7

You can change the date format of the short date in control panel -> change date, time, or number formats -> additional settings -> date. Set it to something like ddd d-M-yy will give you what you want

Answer 8

Here's a screenshot of me using the d/M/yy ddd setup and turning off small icons.

Screenshot showing control panel settings for date and time, and the taskbar showing the date and day

Answer 9

If, like me, you just want to show the date of the month on the screen somewhere yet keep your taskbar slim and you use Google Calendar a lot, may I suggest you just keep a tab to Google Calendar open. That tab shows the day of the month.

Answer 10

You have to change the format of the date in the control panel... With the Task bar set to double height> Control Panel>Clock, Language, and Region> Region>Change date, time or number formats.... Select Additional Settings Select Date Tag in short date in "Date Formats" change it to dddd MMM dd, yyyy (Type it in Manually as it is not a selection choice) Select apply then ok this will close the Additional Setting window Select apply then ok this will close the Region Window

Now you should see something like Monday Nov 30, 2015 on the bottom line with the Time above it.

That's about the only way to do this without any additional third party apps

This can change the format across the board in all your apps like Excel/Word and alike when you want to insert the date, it will insert the day as well. If this is not a problem then go ahead and use the steps, if not you will have to put up with no day being displayed... Entirely up to you

Answer 11

Right click on the time. Adjust date/time. Change date and time formats. The short date format needs to be MM/dd/yy.