Obsessed with the Press

I did some hunting today to find out how to set up Windows XP to use the 24-hour clock instead of the (ugh) 12-hour clock. Here it is:

Go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options, and click the Customize button next to the drop-down box. Go to the Time tab, and change the time format to H:mm:ss. The value you just replaced should have looked something like hh:mm:ss tt. The ‘tt’ represents AM or PM, and obviously we won’t need that anymore. Click OK, and OK again, and look at the clock in your taskbar. Hooray!

Did you find this article useful? Please leave a comment to let me know. Don’t worry, you don’t need to register for a simple comment.