Windows 7 - Time Format - Change

**Brink**

How to Change the Windows 7 Time Format

Information

This will show you how to change the time format to how you want it to display in Windows 7.

Here's How:

1. Open the Control Panel (All Items view), and click on the Region and Language icon, then close the Control Panel.

2. Under the Formats tab, select the format regional language that you want to use. (See screenshot below step 3)

3. Change the time formats to how you want them displayed, and click on the Apply button. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: This will be for how the Short time and Long time will be displayed as.

4. Click on the Additional Settings button. (See screenshot above)
NOTE: This will allow you to further customize the time format.

5. Click on the Time tab, and change the time formats to how you want them displayed. (See screenshot below)

6. When done, click on OK. (See screenshot above)

7. Click on OK. (See screenshot below step 4)

That's it,
Shawn

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**nezi** · 01-20-2010

If I include a day of week in long and short formats, and have my taskbar heightened to three rows, the day of week displays twice like so:

12:20pm
Wednesday
Wednesday, 1/20/2010

Here are my short format settings:
dddd, M/d/yyyy

Here are my long format settings:
dddd, M/d/yyyy

I have the both the same due to my email program needing them that way to display the day of week for all messages.

My question is where does the middle day of week (Wednesday, as seen above under 12:20pm) come from?

**Brink** · 01-20-2010

Nello Nezi, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Set your "Short date" to M/d/yyyy to see if that helps instead.

**nezi** · 01-20-2010

That will fix the windows double day display issue but will throw off my thunderbird date format. Do you know where to change the 'middle' day of the week displayed in the windows date and time? See attached image.

**Brink** · 01-20-2010

Nezi,

Other than shrinking the height of the taskbar back down until the middle day is no longer displayed, I'm not sure how you can.

thepower99 · 09-30-2011

Thanks for that, my machine decided that it would rather use the US time date format, which was annoying

thanks for the quick fix

**Brink** · 09-30-2011

You're most welcome thepower99.

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