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
    2023-06-05T22:24:09+00:00

    I am running Windows 10, not 11 - the recommended registry change made no difference.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-17T13:14:30+00:00

    I notice today that after this last lot of updates the seconds have come back on the system clock, even on the lower spec laptop which didn't like ElevenClock so didn't have that on there.

    A real shame that Microsoft even thought to take away such a handy feature, and even sadder that it took a third party to bale us out until Microsoft woke up and smelt the coffee....

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-02T22:11:17+00:00

    I understand your frustration, I am also a user of Windows 11 like you are, I am not a Microsoft employee I am an independent advisor, and windows 11 being a new window it will take some time for it to have all the features that one may need.

    I would suggest submitting feedback to the support engineer team of Microsoft so that they can add the features that you have talked about in future releases.

    https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback

    Kind regards

    Mustafa

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-02T21:24:14+00:00

    Hello! My name is Mustafa, and I am an Independent Advisor as well as a long-time Microsoft user. I'm sorry that you are experiencing this issue, and I am hopeful that I will be able to help you find a satisfactory solution.

    Based on the article that you have linked it says that the feature is going to be available for the Windows 11 build 25246+

    So can you check your windows version and see if you have the latest update?

    You can check your windows version by win+ r and search for winver and under the Microsoft Windows the version of the windows that you are using is written.

    If you don't have the latest version I would recommend you to update to the latest version and check again.

    Please let me know if this doesn't work or if you need further assistance.

    Warm Regards,

    Mustafa

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