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
    2025-04-13T08:28:16+00:00

    I'm running Windows 11 Version 24H2 OS Build 26100.36.24 at the moment and the setting is no longer under Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar behaviors but under Settings > Time & Language > Date & time > Show time and date in the System tray. If you expand the collapsed submenu, it shows the option Show seconds in system tray clock (uses more power).

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-26T15:57:32+00:00

    Settings > System > Time & language > Date & time > Show time and date in the System tray > Check the "Show seconds in system tray clock (uses more power)

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-21T12:20:51+00:00

    See below

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-19T20:17:14+00:00

    You can enable this setting using the Registry Editor. 

    1. Open Registry Editor and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.
    2. Create a new DWORD (32Bit) value
    3. Rename it to: ShowSecondsInSystemClock.
    4. Set the value to 1.

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