My pictures are coming out narrow and does not show all the info on the bottom as far as date and time

If you want to see the date /time info while viewing the pictures on the camera, you can change the display settings, press the DISP button, till you see a smaller picture and the date and time on the bottom of the screen.
If you want the date and time printed on a picture, you should use the pict bridge option from the camera and in the setup you should chose the setting for that. See page 165 and following from the manual.
But the simple timestamps of the yellow or orange stamps like in the older digital cameras, won't work.
Because the camera keeps a all information stored in the EXEF part of the picture, it won't destroy the jpeg it produces. If you really want the date and time imprinted, you should use a program on the computer, to use the date and or time info and brand it in the picture, before saving it.
Be aware all pictures do have the date and time info in them and most viewers on the computer (whatever OS) will show the info when asked, anyway.

I would suggest that the problem is not your imac but the camera have you checked the date is correct on your camera. The imac takes the date as far as I understand it from the Exif data on the picture which is written by the camera.

It may depend on the brand of digital camera, but on my canon you go to 'menu' scroll down to 'Info Disp' (you get a choice between Off, standard and detailed) If you choose standard you get the date and time the picture was taken in the bottom left hand corner. Hope this helps.

there is a display button at the bottom right of the back of the camera. its the very bottom rocker buttons. it says DISP/? or/(and the trash symbol). knowing this go to look at your pictures (using the "play" symbol) and click DISP. the time and date should appear now.

It doesn't get printed on the pictures. The info is stored along with the picture and is called metadata. This info can be retrieved with most photo editing programs.

The most common reason is a faulty lower buffer board. Also faults to Sustain boards and cables can cause the same problem on a plasma.

The date will only show up on the picture under a limited set of circumstances on the Canon PowerShot digital cameras, of which the A540 is one. You've probably found the Date function in the menu, but discovered that it was off, grayed out, and skipped over whenever you tried to reset it.

Date stamp will only work in "Postcard" mode. Press the Function button (labeled "FUNC SET"), then press the down button until you reach the Recording Pixels selection (usually labeled "L", but not always). It's probably the bottom onscreen selection. Use the right or left buttons to select Postcard, then press the Function button again.

Press the Menu button and scroll down to Date Stamp. Now you should be able to select "Date" or "Date & Time" with the right or left button. Press Menu again and take your pictures.

Hiya,

When the camera is on, press the 'Disp/Back' button to the bottom left of panel - near far right corner of screen.

that should keep the date/time from showing in your photos.

go to function and change pic size to wide or it shows a w -then you will see in main menu highlight of time and date stamp-canon can only do date and/or time in a certain size pic-rember it's a lower quality resolution than normal-change pic size first at bottom of function menu then go to main menu

I don't believe that the XTi will let you have the date on the picture.
Easiest solution I can think of is to download some free software like Paint.net and use the text tool to add it in the corner before printing.
If you have forgotten the date or time, and you're using windows (not sure how to do this on a mac) right click on the image, go to properties, click the summary tab, and then click Advanced. That will give you something called the EXIF data, or all the info about the picture (camera model, shutter speed, etc). Near the bottom should be the date and time.