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
2023-06-04T09:52:27+00:00 This does NOT work
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Anonymous
2023-05-17T17:44:40+00:00 Perfect. THANK YOU!
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Anonymous
2023-05-17T16:20:15+00:00 It's now showing up after latest update. And performance is much better too! Win 11 might actually be out of beta finally :)
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Anonymous
2023-05-17T15:10:08+00:00 Add/edit the DWORD value for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\ShowSecondsInSystemClock to 1.