Microsoft has released some new updates for Windows Calculator and Windows Alarms & Clock. So here we go… let’s make Windows 10 display 24-hour time!įirst, right click the clock in the system tray and then click “Adjust date/time.More Windows 10 apps for Windows Insiders have been updated tonight. I found it funny, and maybe a little sad, and so I am reproducing it here because, who knows, someone else out there might want to make Windows 10 show 24-hour time, and this might save them some frustration. An hour or two later he figured it out and posted the solution in slack. We gave up and returned to what we were getting paid for. He could not remember offhand how he had changed the setting, so the call went off the rails for a few mins as he poked around the same things I had been poking around, without success. After a couple seconds and an increasing level of distraction from the main object of our call I gave up and mentioned it to Aaron. Anyway, I started idly poking the time settings as we talked about an entirely different thing, assuming I could just, you know, right click and then click something like “Display 24-hour time.” Ha. As for why I use Windows at all, given that I spend my days working in Linux… the short answer is Steam, but that’s another tale. And yes, I realize these tools can mostly be configured to show either local time or UTC, but I am not going to let my laziness cloud the point of a good story. Well, I thought, that would be nice: one less step when mentally converting from a server timestamp to log times in kibana or Google Cloud console. The other day I was on a zoom call with my friend and colleague Aaron and I noticed that his Windows 10 desktop displayed 24-hour time. Still, I do want to make all the on-the-fly converting I have to do as easy as possible.
I’ve considered just changing everything in my life to UTC military time but I would irritate my wife and you can’t avoid hitting a disconnect somewhere. My colleagues are often reporting timestamps in their own local time, which given that we’ve been a remote team for something like forever means those might be EST, EDT, CDT, CST, PDT, PST… you get the point… moreover you’ve probably lived it just like the rest of us. Our slack channel shows 12-hour local time, as does the kitchen clock and my phone.
Yeah, I hate time zones, and you pr obably do too.
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