Military time / Date and time

[klafert]

Some how my clock got set to Military time. I want to change it back to
normal time. I went to adjust Date/time and don't See an option to change
back to a 1 hour clock instead of a 24 hour clock?

 

[Alan Edwards]

It is not in Date/Time.
It is in Regional and Language Options

....Alan

 

[Tim Meddick]

As "Alan Edwards" says in his post - the setting for this is in 'Control
Panel' > Regional and Language Options'

Open the 'Regional and Language Options' control panel and click on the
'Customize' button.

Another window opens (Customize Regional Options) click on the 'Time'
tab at the top.

In the topmost box marked 'Time format' you will see something like this
:


HH:mm:ss


....to change to a 12 hour format clock, type this into the box instead :


h:mm tt


The capital H stands for 24 hour format and having two of them [HH] will
cause a leading 0 (zero) to be displayed.

Changing to a small case 'h' stands for 12 hour format and having just
one of them will scrap leading zeros. The addition of the double 'tt'
causes the display of am / pm symbols.

Thus, the change will result in having a display similar to - 3:54 pm

You can also change the capital AM / PM here, to a better small-case
am / pm simply by typing over them.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Mike - EMAIL IGNORED]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:04:24 +0100, Tim Meddick wrote:


[...]

Neat. I prefer the 24 hr clock, and using your suggestion,
I just set it to that. But the Task Bar still does not
show seconds. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks,
Mike.

 

[Unknown]

No! Even if there were, you wouldn't want to do that.

 

[Tim Meddick]

No, you would think that adding .ss to the end like : h:mm.ss tt
would do it, but it does not.

There must be some place in Windows where doing this will show the
seconds as having the "ss" option is included in the key in the
'Customize Regional Options' page (as described in my former post in
this thread).

But including it in this setting does not make the seconds show up in
the right-hand corner clock - unfortunately

You can get a neat (16kb) clock that displays the seconds either in
analogue or digital format (also, 12 or 24hr formats) in the Powertoys
for Windows'98. Just set it how you want it and place a shortcut to it
in your 'Startup' folder so that it starts every session.

Download the Win98 Powertoys file POWERTOY.EXE from :

http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/download/Powertoy.exe

....and extract the file CLOCK.EXE using WinZip or WinRAR.

Don't actually run the install on this file but use WinZip or WinRAR to
extract the file as installing it on XP will mess up the 'Send to
desktop' 'Send To...' item and also the cabview shell extension.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[John Wunderlich]

But the Task Bar still does not show seconds. Is there a way to
do that?

Many people install "TClock [Light]" to do this

<http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/>

HTH,
John

 

[Tim Meddick]

John,
Does 'TClock light' force the Window's taskbar clock to display
seconds (what we want) OR does it install a new clock somewhere nearby?

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

But the Task Bar still does not show seconds. Is there a way to
do that?

Many people install "TClock [Light]" to do this

<http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/>

HTH,
John

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

John,
Does 'TClock light' force the Window's taskbar clock to display
seconds (what we want) OR does it install a new clock somewhere nearby?

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

But the Task Bar still does not show seconds. Is there a way to
do that?

Many people install "TClock [Light]" to do this

<http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/>

HTH,
John

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

John,
Does 'TClock light' force the Window's taskbar clock to display
seconds (what we want) OR does it install a new clock somewhere nearby?

I'm not John, but I'm someone who has happily used Tclock for a number
of years, so I'll throw in an answer.

No, it doesn't do either of those things. It lets you choose to
display seconds or not, on the regular clock.

But the Task Bar still does not show seconds. Is there a way to
do that?

Many people install "TClock [Light]" to do this

<http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/>

HTH,
John

 

[Tim Meddick]

Is that *not* what I was asking Ken?

....that the program lets you choose to display seconds on the clock on
the taskbar (the taskbar clock, as I put it)?

Do you not call the [digital] clock displayed in the taskbar
(Notification Area) on the far right-hand side, the "Window's Clock"?

If this is true, that's what we want...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

John,
Does 'TClock light' force the Window's taskbar clock to
display
seconds (what we want) OR does it install a new clock somewhere
nearby?

I'm not John, but I'm someone who has happily used Tclock for a number
of years, so I'll throw in an answer.

No, it doesn't do either of those things. It lets you choose to
display seconds or not, on the regular clock.

But the Task Bar still does not show seconds. Is there a way to
do that?

Many people install "TClock [Light]" to do this

<http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/>

HTH,
John

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Is that *not* what I was asking Ken?

...that the program lets you choose to display seconds on the clock on
the taskbar (the taskbar clock, as I put it)?

You said "force the Window's taskbar clock to display seconds." My
point was that it doesn't *force* it, it lets you choose to have it do
that, if that's what you want (as you said above, in this message).

But no big deal. I think we just misunderstood each other.

Do you not call the [digital] clock displayed in the taskbar
(Notification Area) on the far right-hand side,

A very minor point, but I'll throw it in for others reading this: it's
on the bottom right if you use the default location of the task bar,
but it can be elsewhere, for example, the bottom left if the task bar
is on the left of the screen.

the "Window's Clock"?

I don't have a name for it I always use, but I don't object to that
one--except for the spelling. ;-)

If this is true, that's what we want...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

John,
Does 'TClock light' force the Window's taskbar clock to
display
seconds (what we want) OR does it install a new clock somewhere
nearby?

I'm not John, but I'm someone who has happily used Tclock for a number
of years, so I'll throw in an answer.

No, it doesn't do either of those things. It lets you choose to
display seconds or not, on the regular clock.

But the Task Bar still does not show seconds. Is there a way to
do that?

Many people install "TClock [Light]" to do this

<http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/>

HTH,
John

 

[Tim Meddick]

Granted, but what I meant by 'forced' was that there's no way to
'encourage' Windows to display seconds normally.

So a 3rd-party app would have to do more than just 'ask'.... it would
have to use some pretty 'strong-arm' tactics to accomplish this, since
it's not 'natural' Windows behaviour.

Don't you think?


==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

Is that *not* what I was asking Ken?

...that the program lets you choose to display seconds on the clock
on
the taskbar (the taskbar clock, as I put it)?

You said "force the Window's taskbar clock to display seconds." My
point was that it doesn't *force* it, it lets you choose to have it do
that, if that's what you want (as you said above, in this message).

But no big deal. I think we just misunderstood each other.

Do you not call the [digital] clock displayed in the taskbar
(Notification Area) on the far right-hand side,

A very minor point, but I'll throw it in for others reading this: it's
on the bottom right if you use the default location of the task bar,
but it can be elsewhere, for example, the bottom left if the task bar
is on the left of the screen.

the "Window's Clock"?

I don't have a name for it I always use, but I don't object to that
one--except for the spelling. ;-)

If this is true, that's what we want...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:32:33 +0100, "Tim Meddick"

John,
Does 'TClock light' force the Window's taskbar clock to
display
seconds (what we want) OR does it install a new clock somewhere
nearby?



I'm not John, but I'm someone who has happily used Tclock for a
number
of years, so I'll throw in an answer.

No, it doesn't do either of those things. It lets you choose to
display seconds or not, on the regular clock.





But the Task Bar still does not show seconds. Is there a way
to
do that?

Many people install "TClock [Light]" to do this

<http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/>

HTH,
John

 

[John Wunderlich]

Granted, but what I meant by 'forced' was that there's no way to
'encourage' Windows to display seconds normally.

So a 3rd-party app would have to do more than just 'ask'.... it
would have to use some pretty 'strong-arm' tactics to accomplish
this, since it's not 'natural' Windows behaviour.

Don't you think?

There is no way to coerce Windows to natively display seconds.
That's one reason why TClock has become as popular as it is.

TClock is an application that overlays the Windows Clock in the tray
with its own version of it. If you terminate the application, then
the clock reverts back to the standard Windows clock.

Try it. See what you think of it. It's freeware.

HTH,
-- John

 

[Tim Meddick]

On receiving your invitation to download and try 'TClock', I did and am
very glad that I did!

It's *very* configurable and can be set to look exactly the same as
normal, only, to provide the seconds - just like the OP wanted.

If I had known of this simple little program beforehand, I would have
had no hesitation in advocating it as a perfect solution to providing
seconds display for the Windows taskbar clock.

Thanks very much John, I will definitely continue to use this from now
on!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

On receiving your invitation to download and try 'TClock', I did and am
very glad that I did!

There are several available freeware programs that do similar things.
I haven't tried them all, but I've tried several, and in my view, this
is the best one. I like it much better, for example, than the
similarly-named TClockEx.

 

[Mike - EMAIL IGNORED]

But the Task Bar still does not show seconds. Is there a way to do
that?

Many people install "TClock [Light]" to do this

<http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/>

HTH,
John

I just installed TClock and it is just what I wanted.
Thanks,
Mike.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Brilliant, isn't it?

Check out the "cuckoo clock" option. If you check mark the 'repeat'
box, whatever [small] WAV file you choose 'repeats' the same number of
times as the current hour. If you find a WAV of a cuckoo sound - it's
just like a cuckoo clock!! (although, you could also equally have a
"big ben" sound instead )

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

But the Task Bar still does not show seconds. Is there a way to do
that?

Many people install "TClock [Light]" to do this

<http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/>

HTH,
John

I just installed TClock and it is just what I wanted.
Thanks,
Mike.