Comments on: SwWeek: display the current calendar week in the system tray

By: mike platt

mike platt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:39:32 +0000

DateInTray is another calender program that uses less than half a megabyte of memory. It shows the numerical date in the tray but when you place the mouse over it, it will show the calender day (Sunday, etc), the month and the numerical date. If you click the date it will show the full calender for the month and you can toggle the calender backward or forward if you like. I recommend it for its economical use of memory.

By: rygel

rygel — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:58:31 +0000

I tried a lot of date/time tools and kept “BetaClock”. Very polished, many features (desktop clock, clipboard copy), great calendar function and of course custom date/time display in task tray (multiline if you want).

Mine shows currently “w38/d15 12:53:40″
(‘w’ww/’d'dd %longtime)

I need to know the current week quiten often at work, and this tool sure helps.

By: x

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:50:59 +0000

Of course I meant “it does”, not “I does”.

By: x

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:50:32 +0000

TClock Light is exactly that (light) and I does some things that TClockEx doesn’t do:

http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclocklight/index.html

I’ve used it for years on XP and it works great.

By: Moabi te

Moabi te — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:26:24 +0000

Do you think that it is a good thing for a person to organize his life in weeks? If yes, your program is really a great help.
Thanks!

By: hari

hari — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:52:04 +0000

another vote for TClockEx. I can show info in two rows, I format that for time, date & week. Diferent format for tooltip.
I set one click to open calendar box. double click to copy certain date format, I paste in desc when saving a file as version code. Its has flexible customisation.

By: Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:02:06 +0000

I also use TClockEx. Havnen’t found anything which is smaller and more helpful in the past few years. Explorer crash recovery isn’t as robust as it should be, though. That can probably be fixed by adding it to one of the “run” lists in the registry. I’m not sure which of those lists is run each time Explorer starts. All the oterh tray clocks I’ve tried are clumsy and/or bulki in comparison. FWIW, Europeans use the week number far more than American.

By: Guy

Guy — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:52:36 +0000

I’ve been using an app called TClockEx for a while. It replaces the time in the tray with the time or date in whatever format you want (very configurable). I use “MM/dd HH:mm” which results in “09/12 20:39″. It supports the week number and the day of year as well. It can also be set to copy the time/date to the clipboard when you click on the time/date display in the tray.

I’m not sure how much memory it uses since it attaches itself to the explorer process. It’s a very small is size though (exe is 87KB, dll is 94KB). I Definitely recommend checking it out.

http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/