Fix in latest stable update from April (then one bot on Path Tuesday, but later).
How to enable seconds in system clock
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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
2023-04-12T00:07:17+00:00 Let's be real, and honest here. Windows 11 is NOT NEW.
That excuse will just not work.
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Anonymous
2023-04-29T13:11:36+00:00 I'm freshly updated and don't have the option in Settings/Personalization/Taskbar/Taskbar behaviors.
It would be nice...
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Anonymous
2024-11-07T04:34:40+00:00 I just updated to Windows 11 and found the show seconds option here: Settings > Time & language > Date & time. Expand the dropdown in "Show time and date in System tray" and check the "Show seconds..." check box. It was the only thing in the drop down.
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Anonymous
2023-05-06T23:56:04+00:00 I've tried it all, even the registry editor thing didn't work. Microsoft so likes to piss us off. Why in the F___k do they keep removing certain features people like. In the last 6 months they've pissed me off by removing, and re-adding certain features after realizing people weren't happy about them removing it in the first place.
I think Microsoft has gotten to big, and needs competition to bring it down a notch. I will leave it at that, and I can't believe I'm about to say this. I'm thinking of getting only Apple products from now on just to boycott Microsoft. And I don't even like Apple. But I'm tire of Microsoft messing up by removing **** we like using and all. Only to bring back later because they realize we're pissed about them removing it in the first place.