How To Change The Time Settings In Windows Vista
ADVERTISEMENTSThose of you who use Windows Vista may have noticed that the clock in your system tray displays time in the 24 hour format by default. If you prefer 12 hour format and is confused on how to do it, follow these steps:
- Click the Start button
- Click the Control Panel and then double-click Regional and Language Options if you are using Control Panel in Classic View OR click Clock, Language, and Region and then click Regional and Language Options
- Click Customize this format
- On the Time tab, Change Time format to hh:mm:ss tt
Note: Change Time format to HH:mm:ss to switch back to 24-hour clock format.
This may sound simple, but believe me I never found the option to switch to 12 hour format until I googled and found this page.
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Posted on August 24th, 2007 | Category: Tutorials |
Nuts & Milk
August 24, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Double clicking the clock on the taskbar doesnt work or what????
Tupac
August 24, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Can’t say I’ve ever needed to do this since I’m sitll using XP, but my dad uses Vista on his PC, so if the problem shall arise I am know aware of how to do this
JohnTP
August 24, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Nuts & Milk- Double clicking the clock will give you option to change time and all only. I have not found the option to switch to 12 hour format there.
NSpeaks
August 24, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Tupac - same method works for XP too. Strange John you found this tip too late.
James Leger
August 25, 2007 at 1:17 am
This is a standard method to change on any windows installation I believe.
Bidding Directory
August 25, 2007 at 2:48 am
Oh, interesting thing. Will try it on my laptop. Thanks
MoneyNing
August 25, 2007 at 5:16 am
Thanks for the great tip!
Webmaster Money
August 25, 2007 at 8:46 am
Luckily I knew how to se time. Anyway once you set it with instalation you dont have to change it.
MoneyBlueBook
August 26, 2007 at 3:31 am
Hi, I find it funny how your blog changes to random topics sometimes. The cow fight was cheesy but funny. Keep up the good work.I’ve been following other blogs to learn how to build my new blog.
-Raymond
Ravi
August 26, 2007 at 8:32 am
Even you can setup additional clocks using windows vista.
2007 Frankfurt Auto Show
August 27, 2007 at 4:28 pm
o, well, thanks for your tips. but i still using WinXP.
Blogging Mix
August 27, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Hey thanks for this info. I haven’t figured that out not until now. Cheers!
Prognog
August 28, 2007 at 8:55 am
You’d think they’d make it a bit more obvious…
lady influence
August 28, 2007 at 4:27 pm
thanks for the information…nice tip!
horisly
August 28, 2007 at 8:53 pm
good tips.
Vijay
August 28, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Will do me a world of good once I get settled with Vista! Thanks for the tip!
Vikram
August 29, 2007 at 8:09 am
Good Tip
shreker
August 29, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Thanks for tip!
Nirmal
August 30, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Good that you found the method, its difficult to get even after searching in google.
Webmaster Money
September 1, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Where is the top commentators plugin?
MoneyNing
September 2, 2007 at 11:46 pm
John probably didn’t want people ot know that there’s no comments anymore so he can continue to milk the site because of the subscriber count and PR. It’s not really that we don’t want to comment john, it’s that you don’t write articles anymore!
best
September 3, 2007 at 11:38 am
this is your last chance to get your clocks right, after this post no one is ever going to remind you, i always used to forget and it worked for me and i have done it….lol
Noorizam Shah
September 3, 2007 at 12:35 pm
very interesting. I will try into my laptop!
Amit Verma
September 4, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Thanx for the tip John. keep posting
moda
September 4, 2007 at 1:43 pm
I have seen too many update problems with vista when I change time or date
Webmaster Money
September 8, 2007 at 2:51 pm
And also it look like this is the last post…
Where is John? Vacation?
Jordan Parker
September 20, 2007 at 2:43 am
thanks that realy helped allot
Anoop
October 4, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Thanks, it was really helpful.
itrokz
December 18, 2007 at 11:22 pm
thanks man..i was wondering how to change it and googled to find ur post..so helpful thanks,but the thing is why vista is so strange for changing the format of the clock even?? but XP is so friendly..i wan to blast bill gates ass..
lost utopian
May 28, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Thanks for this.
For people who haven’t used vista yet, apparently setting to the AMPM format is not in the popup that appears when you double click the time on the lowerright portion. some stupid designer/architect hid it into the regional settings which this article described how to.
it’s like when you want to change the coldness temperature of your refrigerator, you have to go to your garage to set it, it is hidden so you can’t accidentally change it, duh, how smart.
June 9, 2008 at 6:59 pm
thanks man so helpful
Gaurav Gupta
July 14, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Thanks for the useful tip.
Neorules
July 29, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Thanks abillion i was lookin 4r this ma whole lif3
July 30, 2008 at 12:28 am
Finaly! been trying to sus it out for ages!
Cheers
david McCabe
August 4, 2008 at 7:22 am
thanks for the hepl,searched all day for a fix.had pc problems and were fixed except for the time thanks again.
raj
August 7, 2008 at 6:39 pm
thanks & useful
Amit
August 8, 2008 at 3:09 pm
John I think you should stop moderating comments to these one year old posts! Its sucks to receive these kinda spammy email notifications everytime you get a new comment.
/unsubscribing
Brent
August 28, 2008 at 7:34 am
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MS
October 27, 2008 at 1:40 am
Thank you. This was annoying me after the most recent update and I couldn’t find out where to switch back to 12 hour clock.
Craig Farr
November 26, 2008 at 3:58 am
I hate vista….mine was default 12hr now its back to the proper 24hr thx