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
    2023-06-20T17:41:18+00:00

    Yep.. Glad it's not just me! I opened a ticket and they wanted me to do a full reinstall of the OS.. Was like no way jose! Fix the update on your end, then get back to me. Ridiculous.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-20T17:47:29+00:00

    You need to activate Moments 3 with ViveTool.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-20T18:59:13+00:00

    After making the registry change (Windows 10), nothing changed for a long time, until I rebooted.

    Since I reboot as seldom as possible (typically 60 days), nothing apparently had changed.

    After reboot, the seconds display in the clock on the lower right of the toolbar.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-07T13:03:50+00:00

    What??? No I don't.. Just needed Microsoft to undo whatever broke it in their latest update.

    Which they finally did. Seconds are back as of today. Hopefully here to stay!!

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