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
    2025-04-28T22:08:04+00:00

    OK, my version is 23H2, 22631.5262

    Seconds display can be set by searching for "seconds" in the Find a setting box in Settings or by right-clicking the time display in the task bar, clicking "adjust time and date", clicking the text "Show seconds in system tray clock..." and checking the box.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-28T16:22:23+00:00

    As of 2025-04-28 if you search for 'seconds' in settings it can be found under Time & Language > Date & Time as an option under the Show time and date in the System tray.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-09T19:50:28+00:00

    After the registry change, a restart is required to activate it.

    One computer of mine that worked, but another did not.

    Both are W10 Pro 22H2 64-bit, one with 202401 updates and the other 202402 updates (which is the one where the registry change didn't work, after several restarts).

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-02T20:25:22+00:00

    Can't find Taskbar behaviors, and check the “Show seconds in system tray clock” option.

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