How to get clock in taskbar to display seconds

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Is there any way to get the clock in the taskbar to display seconds as well as hour, minutes, and AM/PM?

 

[LMiller7]

I believe the only way to do that is with third party software.

 

[Indianatone]

You can use 7 taskbar tweaker

7+ Taskbar Tweaker - RaMMicHaeL's Blog

I have used it for years to clear the unwanted spaces between icons on the taskbar.
If you want the taskbar to display 10:35:44, Wednesday 7/30/2014 make sure your taskbar is double hight.

 

[Indianatone]

Actually it can be accomplished easily in the time section of Region and Language. In long time add 2 lower case ss to the string, see screen shot.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I already have the long time set up with ss in the long time. So, how the big fat hairy heck do you get the long time to display in the task bar?

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

You can use 7 taskbar tweaker

7+ Taskbar Tweaker - RaMMicHaeL's Blog

I have used it for years to clear the unwanted spaces between icons on the taskbar.
If you want the taskbar to display 10:35:44, Wednesday 7/30/2014 make sure your taskbar is double hight.

The first problem I see is I have my taskbar on the left side of the screen. How do you make that double height?

 

[MilesAhead]

Uncheck Lock the Taskbar. You just have to futz with the mouse until you get the double arrows. Then drag.

This free software just tweaks the Windows clock. It makes it easy to set fonts and create the time format string.

T-Clock

 

[Callender]

Third Party Software

Here's another idea to consider.

I use Stoic Joker's T-Clock

Stoic Joker's T-Clock 2010

Need to download T-Clock 2010 (build 95).zip

Screenshot from my machine:



It has quite a few options and is configurable to get the time displayed pretty much any way you like.

It does suffer from going out of sync so I run Time Sync every week or so:

Horst Schaeffer's Software Pages

If you want to try T-Clock you can just run the executable to see it in action.

If you want to run it on startup it's best to create an elevated shortcut and drop it into your startup folder.

 

[MilesAhead]

Note that my T-Clock link is to the DonationCoder thread where several versions are available. I think I'm using the one with the "week number fix" x64 Build 98

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Uncheck Lock the Taskbar. You just have to futz with the mouse until you get the double arrows. Then drag.

This free software just tweaks the Windows clock. It makes it easy to set fonts and create the time format string.

T-Clock

Thanks, Miles, but I know how to unlock and change the size of the taskbar. My problem is my taskbar runs vertically on the left side of the screen. How do you get double height with that? My tray icons are already three across.

Thanks for the link for T-Clock. It looks interesting. I downloaded it and will check it out later.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Note that my T-Clock link is to the DonationCoder thread where several versions are available. I think I'm using the one with the "week number fix" x64 Build 98

Does your version have the running out of sync problem that Callender mentioned?

 

[Callender]

Already posted

Uncheck Lock the Taskbar. You just have to futz with the mouse until you get the double arrows. Then drag.

This free software just tweaks the Windows clock. It makes it easy to set fonts and create the time format string.

T-Clock

Sorry, MilesAhead - I didn't spot that you'd posted T-Clock already!

 

[Callender]

Time Check

Here's an easy way to check your system clock:

Accurate Time

EDIT: Re time going out of sync (by a few seconds per week)

I believe it's down to running Peerblock on my machine rather than an issue with T-Clock. Peerblock does seem to block connection to most time servers! If I disable Peerblock I can sync the clock.

 

[MilesAhead]

Uncheck Lock the Taskbar. You just have to futz with the mouse until you get the double arrows. Then drag.

This free software just tweaks the Windows clock. It makes it easy to set fonts and create the time format string.

T-Clock

Sorry, MilesAhead - I didn't spot that you'd posted T-Clock already!

No sweat. Great minds think alike.