Windows 10: How to change Lock Screen Clock format on Windows 11/10

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Although Windows 11/10 shows a 24-hour lock format on the lock screen, you can change it to a 12-hour format using this step-by-step tutorial. It is possible to change the lock screen clock format on Windows 11/10 using Windows Settings and Control Panel. How to change Time format in Lock Screen in Windows 11/10 There […]

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Lock screen clock format

Hello,

As we all know the lock screen clock is in 24 Hrs format. How can I change it to 12 Hrs? I am using windows 10 Home edition.

 

Windows 10 Lock Screen date format

We appreciate the information that you've given. This issue may have occurred due to the selected Format under Region. There are locations that happen to follow a certain date and time format. To correct the format, we suggest that you follow these steps:

• Press Windows icon + X and select Control Panel.
• On the Control Panel window, select Clock, Language, and Region.
• Under Region, select Change date, time, or number formats.
• On the Region window, under Formats tab, select
  English (United States) on the drop-down menu on Format.
• Click Apply and OK.
• Check your lock screen. (Attached is a reference photo)
  
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Kindly get back to us with the results.

 

How to change lock screen time to 24 hours format on Windows 10?

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community and being a part of Windows 10.

I understand your concern about accessing the 24 hours clock settings on lock screen. We will help you with this issue.

Try the below steps and check if you are able change the clock settings.

• Sign-in as an administrator to your computer.
• Press the
  
  +R
  keys from the keyboard to open the Run dialog, type regedit, and click on
  OK.
• In Registry Editor, navigate to the location to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SystemProtectedUserData
• Expand open SystemProtectedUserData, and expand open the long
  S-1-5-21... subkey for the user account that you want to change their lock screen clock time format.
  
• Under the long S-1-5-21... subkey for the user in the left pane, expand open
  AnyoneRead, and select LocaleInfo.
• In the right pane of LocaleInfo, double click on the
  TimeFormat string value to modify it.
• Type in the time format from the table below you want to display on the lock screen clock for the user, and click/tap on
  OK.
• When finished, close Registry Editor, and sign out of the Administrator account.
• To test, sign in to the user account that you changed their lock screen clock time format, and
  lock (
  
  +
  L) the computer to see the lock screen with the clock's new time format.

Registry disclaimer: Important this section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that
you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.

Refer to the below article to backup and restore the registry in Windows:

How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

Note: The above links applies to Windows 10 as well.

Hope it helps. Get back to us for further assistance on this issue. We will be happy to help you.