How to Customize AM and PM Symbols in System Tray Clock in Windows?
In almost all Windows versions the time is displayed in system tray. The hour and minutes are displayed along with the AM and PM symbols.
This tutorial will teach you how to customize these AM and PM symbols. You can replace them with any desired text, e.g. your name, anything you want.
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To change it:
1. Type intl.cpl in Run or Start Menu searchbox and press Enter. It’ll open Regional Settings window. You can also open it from Control Panel.
2. Now click on “Customize” or “Customize this format” button. It’ll open another window. Go to “Time” tab:
3. Now you can change the text for AM and PM symbols to your desired string. You can also completely remove the AM, PM symbols by removing “tt” from “Time format” text box. Even you can interchange between 12 hour and 24 hour time format by using “h” and “H” respectively.
Click on “Apply” button to apply the changes, then again click on “Apply” button to close the main Regional Settings window. Now the system tray will show your desired text instead of default AM and PM symbols:
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4. There is a limitation in this method. You can only type 12 characters in the AM and PM symbol text boxes. What if you want to set longer string? Then you’ll need to edit Registry.
5. Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. Now go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International
Now look for “s1159” and “s2359” string values. Both represent AM and PM symbols respectively.
6. Double-click on each string value and change its value to your desired text. Now you can use longer string without any problem:
7. Exit registry editor. Your changes will be saved immediately. If you don’t see the new text in system tray, then you might need to log off or restart your system.
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Hello Vishal, Good work yaar. Listen How can I display seconds in windows 7 at bottom right corner of screen where the clock is? 10:52:10 PM. something like that.
^^ Not possible by default but you can use 3rd party software:
https://www.askvg.com/tclock-show-windows-7-look-like-date-time-in-system-tray-in-windows-xp-and-vista/
Some people prefer to use roman numbers as month symbols (I for Jan, II for Feb… XII for Dec). Is it possible to replace short months names with romans or use some other method to see date as 31 XII 2014?
I know raising the menu to 3 lines will show Date, Day of Week, and Time. I know of TClock 3rd party app can do it all 1 line, but can this be done only from Windows somehow?
^^ Did you check following?
https://www.askvg.com/how-to-show-day-and-month-names-in-system-tray-date-in-windows-7/
Hi. It seems that “s1159” and “s2359” are tied to the fn. of the clock. Is it, then, poss. to put there ddd or something else that will display the name of the day and change according to the fn. of the clock?
^^ Check following:
https://www.askvg.com/how-to-show-day-and-month-names-in-system-tray-date-in-windows-7/
Thank u very much