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On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 15:41:55 -0500, "Les" wrote:
I would like to display UTC in my tool bar but when set up for UTC it is in the 12 hr format not the 24 hr format. Is their any way I can do this or is their a program I can download to display UTC on my desktop? Using XPHome for operation Sys. Of course, besides downloading a third party free or shareware program, you could get Windows to do it provided you are willing to go all the way and get rid of the 12 hour clock and local time period. You can change the time display to 14:24:32 (you can use another character like dot instead of colon but I'm not sure if you can get rid of the separator altogether) in Control/Regional and Language Options. Hit the Customize button and on the advanced sheet change the hh:mm:ss tt to HH:mm:ss. (capital H, no tt) You can also choose your time zone (control date/time or double click the time in your task bar and use time zone sheet). You want GMT (Cassablanca/Monrovia) and DON'T AUTO ADJUST THE CLOCK FOR DST. (I suppose if you choose that option, the difference between GMT UK and GMT Africa doesn't matter.) |
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I installed third party - Alpha Clock - so I could have BOTH the local
time (24 hr format) and UTC 24 hr. Thanks, Al ======== Joel Rubin wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 15:41:55 -0500, "Les" wrote: I would like to display UTC in my tool bar but when set up for UTC it is in the 12 hr format not the 24 hr format. Is their any way I can do this or is their a program I can download to display UTC on my desktop? Using XPHome for operation Sys. Of course, besides downloading a third party free or shareware program, you could get Windows to do it provided you are willing to go all the way and get rid of the 12 hour clock and local time period. You can change the time display to 14:24:32 (you can use another character like dot instead of colon but I'm not sure if you can get rid of the separator altogether) in Control/Regional and Language Options. Hit the Customize button and on the advanced sheet change the hh:mm:ss tt to HH:mm:ss. (capital H, no tt) You can also choose your time zone (control date/time or double click the time in your task bar and use time zone sheet). You want GMT (Cassablanca/Monrovia) and DON'T AUTO ADJUST THE CLOCK FOR DST. (I suppose if you choose that option, the difference between GMT UK and GMT Africa doesn't matter.) |
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