Personalization Enable or Disable Show Shortened Time and Date on Taskbar in Windows 11


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This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off show shortened (abbreviated) time and date on the taskbar system tray clock for your account in Windows 11.

The clock on the taskbar system tray shows the system time and date by default.

Starting with Windows 11 build 22631.4541 (23H2) and build 22631.4534 (24H2), the system tray shows a shortened date and time. Also, the notification bell icon might not show if you have set the toggle for “Do not disturb” to on. If the bell icon does not show, click the date and time to view your messages in the notification center. You can also get to these settings using the context menu. Just right click the system tray clock or bell icon.

Starting with Windows 11 build 22635.4580 (Beta) and build 26120.2510 (Dev), the more simplified system tray with shortened form date/time Microsoft began rolling out with Build 22635.4010 is being temporarily disabled to address a few issues.


Contents

  • Option One: Enable or Disable Show Shortened Time and Date on Taskbar in Settings
  • Option Two: Enable or Disable Show Shortened Time and Date on Taskbar using REG file


EXAMPLE: Enable or disable show shortened time and date on taskbar system tray clock

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Option One

Enable or Disable Show Shortened Time and Date on Taskbar in Settings


1 Open Settings (WIn+I).

2 Click/tap on Time & language on the left side, and click/tap on Date & time on the right side. (see screenshot below)


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3 Click/tap on Show time and date in the System tray on the right side to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 4)

4 Check (on - default) or Uncheck (off) Show abbreviated time and date for what you want. (see screenshot below)

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5 You can now close Settings if you like.




Option Two

Enable or Disable Show Shortened Time and Date on Taskbar using REG file


1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.

2 Enable Show Shortened Time and Date on Taskbar

This is the default setting.


A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_show_shortened_date_and_time_on_taskbar.reg


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowShortenedDateTime"=dword:00000001

3 Disable Show Shortened Time and Date on Taskbar

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_show_shortened_date_and_time_on_taskbar.reg


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowShortenedDateTime"=dword:00000000

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink


 

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Your options are triggered if this feature is enabled in the build. Otherwise, you need to enable the function via ViveTool with the key 48525682 beforehand.
 

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I went the Vivetool route which works until you reboot or sign out and back in then it switches the shortened version switch to off. If I want to use it I'd have to go into the taskbar settings and recheck the shortened version after every reboot.
 

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UUUUUUUUUUUUUH........ Guys?! I had the shortened time..... but they rolled it back and now I have the USUAL time again, and they removed the option for shorter/longer time....

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HOW NOW BROWN COW?
 

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    Gigabyte
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    Too much haha!
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Oh wait, from REDDIT...
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  • OS
    Windows 11
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Cooler master
    CPU
    I5
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte
    Memory
    Too much haha!
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVidia 1060

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