Place a Clock in the Menu Bar and on the Desktop

The Date & Time preference pane lets you view a clock in the menu bar or as a floating window -- but not both. If you'd like to keep both clocks in view, there's a relatively easy way to do so.

At the root of your hard drive, navigate to System: Library: CoreServices: Menu Extras. In the Menu Extras folder, control-click on Clock.menu and select Show Package Contents. In the new window that opens, navigate to Contents: Resources. Drag WindowClock.app to your Applications folder (or anywhere else you'd like to keep it) to make a copy of the app. You may have to provide your administrative password, as the system owns this file.

Once you've copied WindowClock.app, launch it with a double-click. You'll find that both clocks are active at the same time. If you have a multibutton mouse, you can right-click on the clock face and use the contextual menu to switch between analog and digital modes (for some reason, control-clicking will not bring up the menu; only a right click will work). To get rid of the desktop clock, just open the Date & Time preference pane, click on the Clock tab, and toggle between menu-bar and desktop clocks -- when you toggle back to the menu-bar mode, the desktop clock will vanish.

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