annoyances

So what do you do when your menubar clock freezes?

This [ kill -15 185 ] seems a little harsh (185 was the pid of the SystemUIServer application that manages the menubar).

But nothing else I tried worked. I tried:

  • toggling the settings for the clock in the Date/Time PreferencePane
  • toggling the settings for the clock in the International PreferencePane
  • editing the plist file (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist)

Hmph. Then restarting the SystemUIServer wasn’t so simple. I would have thought it was a daemon process, and would restart itself. Nothing doing.

% /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer

Hmph, again.

If this comes to bite you, let me know if you find a different solution.

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