How to enable seconds in system clock

Anonymous
2023-02-02T20:46:44+00:00

Title says it all.

Found this article, which had a couple suggestions: https://winaero.com/how-to-enable-seconds-for-the-taskbar-clock-in-windows-11/

" Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar behaviors, and check the “Show seconds in system tray clock” option."

Is not there for me

Tried registry fixes, but that made it worse and actually removed the system clock all together, while also breaking the start menu completely. Had to undo that change and now back to square one.

Why on Earth would Microsoft remove the seconds from the clock? I use it quite often for a game I play.. Very frustrating when they remove common sense features like this. Really looks like MSoft put some extremely incompetent people in charge of Win 11. Reminds me of when they hired the guy from Nike to design Win 8 Metro UI. I think we all remember how that went!!

EDIT: WAS fixed for about 2 months with April update, but now it's gone again!!!

Someone from Microsoft owes me an explanation!!

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Anonymous
2023-04-29T09:12:23+00:00

Fix in latest stable update from April (then one bot on Path Tuesday, but later).

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-24T03:19:50+00:00

    The solution is as follows:

    Settings > Time & Language > Date & Time > Show time and date in System tray > ☐ Show seconds in system tray clock (uses more power)

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-09T18:41:47+00:00

    My W10 22H2 does not have show seconds under Time & Language or anywhere else that I've found in the Settings.

    Using the registry to make it show works okay as long as I spell it correctly.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-09T18:15:23+00:00

    Settings > Time & Language > Show time and date in the System tray, and check the “Show seconds in system tray clock” option."

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-09T20:05:07+00:00

    BudPass1 - A restart is required to make the registry change work. That worked on one computer, but not on a second, for me. Something else must be going on.

    As a separate point, you should restart more often. Restart will restore memory leaks, kill of stray processes and reset hardware.

    Note that power down may NOT restore memory leaks. It depends if fast boot is enabled or not. If fast boot is enabled, powering down writes the state of memory to disk. The system up-time clock keeps increasing. Powering up restores the state of memory, including all memory leaks. (In our testing, fast-boot reduces boot-up by ~20 seconds, assuming all apps were closed at power down.)

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