Windows 10: How to Make Your Windows 10 Taskbar Clock Show Seconds

I have completed this small change and it works perfect. Did not take more than a couple of minutes.
I find seconds extremely useful for certain time-check tasks and generally useful to have.
A minute is a long time in the computer world.

Follow the clear and easy instructions given pictorially in the link below and its done.
You have to restart your PC afterwards to show the seconds.

I had to use the 32-bit choice specified, regardless of my PC being a 64-bit set when selecting the new DWORD value.

Follow this link exactly -
How to Make Windows 10’s Taskbar Clock Display Seconds

The image shown is my taskbar showing seconds -





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Hide or Show Seconds on Taskbar Clock in Windows 10


Hello @jrjr,

You can use step 5 in Option Two of the tutorial below to manually change your "Long time" format to h:mm ss tt like below to have a space between time (hour/minutes) and seconds on the taskbar system clock.

*Arrow Change Date and Time Formats in Windows 10 Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials

 

Hide or Show Seconds on Taskbar Clock in Windows 10


the tutorial for how to show show seconds on the taskbar system clock worked perfectly.
is there a way to add 2 spaces so that the seconds are separated from the colon ?

 

How to show seconds on the Windows 10 tray clock

*Source : How to Show Seconds in Taskbar Clock in Windows 10?

1. Start Regedit.exe and go to the following registry branch:
   

1. Create a REG_DWORD value named ShowSecondsInSystemClock
   
2. Set its value data to 1.
   
3. Logoff and login back.
   

This adds seconds to the tray clock.

Works in Windows 10 Anniversary Update (v1607) and higher.