

Microsoft’s Raymond Chen has a blog post on this topic in his blog “The Old New Thing”. But Microsoft noticed the considerable performance impact of those blinking clocks (every second). In early beta versions of Windows 9x, the taskbar clock displayed seconds, with a blinking colon as in digital wall clocks and wristwatches. A little bit of history about the tray clock This registry edit works in Windows 10 v1607 and higher - tested up to v20H2. Or restart the Explorer shell for the change to take effect. Double-click ShowSecondsInSystemClock and set its data to 1.In the right-pane, create a DWORD (32-bit) value named ShowSecondsInSystemClock.Go to the following registry branch: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.Start the Registry Editor ( regedit.exe).To display seconds in the Windows 10 Taskbar clock, follow these steps: Once you completed the steps, you should see the new formats immediately in the taskbar.How to Show Seconds in Windows 10 Taskbar Clock Click OK on more time to complete the task.However, unlike time, you have a limited number of valid formats you can use.

Under "Date formats," you'll notice there is more flexibility to change the date format.įor example, you can edit Short date to show date with dashes or dots (). Under "Time formats," you'll notice that now you can change various aspect of the time format.įor example, you can edit Short time to change the AM and PM symbols for something like "Before Noon" (9:00 Before Noon) and "Afternoon" (3:00 Afternoon). Under the Formats tab, click on the Additional settings button. Click on the Clock, Language, and Region link.Ĭlick on the Change date, time, or numbers formats link.If you want to format the date and time with something more unique, you'll need to use Control Panel. While you can change various date and time formats using the Settings app, you'll notice that you can't add custom formats. Close the Settings app to complete the task.Use the Short time drop-down menu to select the time format you want to see in the Taskbar. Use the Short name drop-down menu to select the date format you want to see in the Taskbar.Under format click the Change date and time formats link.How to change date and time formats on Windows 10
