hidden Date is not displayed in the menu bar when Hidden Bar is collapsed

Describe the bug

Date is not displayed in the menu bar when Hidden Bar is collapsed.

Steps to reproduce

Click on Hidden Bar icon in the Menu Bar to collapse it

Expected behaviour

Date/time is not affected and displayed (f.e. "Tue 17. May 21:35:10")

Actual behaviour

Date/time is corrupted, "Tue 21:35:10" is displayed

Screenshots

Environment

macOS Monterey 12.4
Hidden Bar 1.8 (12) from MAS

May 17 '22 19:05 igRo

I have the same problem here. In addition, when Hidden Bar is collapsed and I click on the date and time part, the highlight part goes to the wrong place. If Hidden Bar is expanded and everything seems to be ok.

May 18 '22 02:05 DivineRapierH

Same bugs above, hope developers can pay attention to them.

May 18 '22 04:05 shangdongyang

Change settings to always show date Снимок экрана 2022-05-18 в 10 53 54

May 18 '22 05:05 int0x19

Change settings to always show date

This setting can display the date. Thank you. But I still hope developers can fix it, ha ha

May 18 '22 06:05 shangdongyang

Change settings to always show date

It works! Thank you!

May 18 '22 07:05 DivineRapierH

I guess this was introduced on purpose so it does not need fixing. There should be a toggle though to influence this as it pleases.

May 18 '22 07:05 conny3496

Seems like we all get this issue after upgrading to macOS Monterey 12.4. Temporary fix by changing the Dock & Menu settings as int0x19 suggested:

May 18 '22 09:05 ReeganExE

Change settings to always show date

Thanks! Can confirm, that solves the problem for me.

I guess, the issue can be closed now.

May 18 '22 12:05 igRo

Change settings to always show date

Thanks! Can confirm, that solves the problem for me.

I guess, the issue can be closed now.

I don't agree, we shouldn't close the issue as the given answers are workarounds, not a bug fix.

May 29 '22 14:05 DimitriDR

Maybe include a note somewhere around the clock portion of the Hidden | Shown diagram?

It seems like the macOS behavior itself is very much working as intended. The "Available Space" shrunk, so macOS hid the date. Making a workaround for that "feature" sounds counter-intuitive... but so is the default user experience with this setting enabled.

So, maybe just a note to the user in case they want to change it.

But that's just my two cents... and I only discovered this app about 10 minutes ago. Then immediately had this issue. 😂

(The app seems great so far though. 😉 Much better option than the Freemium app I was using. I discovered it via alternativeto.net in case you're curious.)

May 30 '22 03:05 mayamcdougall

spent 30 minutes figuring out why the date is missing and killed all the possible services to figure out if that was just random or a bug. and later, I'm here on this issue... I think having an option in the app itself will help this fixing this tiny issue.

In my case, always show does not work it still hides.

Jun 15 '22 13:06 dipakparmar

@dipakparmar In my case I just had to restart Hidden Bar to make it work after setting it in the settings.

Jun 17 '22 05:06 dploeger

@dploeger I got it working after reinstalling it.

Jun 29 '22 05:06 dipakparmar

Even if not showing the date is considered ok, the wrong highlight part of this should still be considered a bug. Anyway, hidden menubar should not "reduce" available space when collapsing.