[Tip] Customize Date and Time in Windows 11 Taskbar Clock, Add Your Name, Day, Month Names

Want to add your name, your company name or any text string to Windows 11 Taskbar? Want to show current day and month names in Windows 11 Taskbar clock? If your answer is yes, then this article will help you.

In this article, we’ll learn how to tweak and customize Windows 11 Taskbar clock and replace AM/PM symbols with your name or any other label. We’ll also learn how to show full date including day and month names in Windows 11 Taskbar notification area.

PS: The method given in this article will work in all Windows versions including Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

By default, Windows 11 displays the current time and date in Taskbar notification area (also known as system tray). The time is displayed with or without AM/PM symbols based on the user’s locale and the date is displayed in numbers only.

Following image shows the default date and time displayed in Windows 11 Taskbar clock:

But if we customize the date and time format, we can show our name or any desired text string as well as day and month names in Windows 11 Taskbar.

Following are some examples of the tweaked output which you can get after following this tutorial:

As you can see in the above image, we have added our website name as well as full or partial day and month names to Windows 11 Taskbar clock. It’s the perfect way to impress your friends or colleagues with your technical skills. They’ll wonder how did you add it?

Customizing date and time in Windows 11 Taskbar clock is super easy and simple. Windows 11 allows users to change and modify the date and time format and if you know how to do it, it’s a piece of cake.

We have already talked about the process long time back in 2008/2009 in following articles when Windows Vista and Windows 7 were latest Windows versions:

How to Show AM / PM Symbols in System Tray Clock in Windows 7 and Later

How to Customize AM and PM Symbols in System Tray Clock in Windows?

How to Show Day and Month Names in System Tray Date in Windows 7 and Later

Interestingly those good ol’ tricks still work in latest Windows 11 operating system and in this article, we are going to rewrite them for Windows 11 users.

If you also want to customize date and time displaying in Windows 11 Taskbar clock, following steps will help you:

STEP 1: Open Region Customization Tool

Date and time can be customized using Region tool which can be accessed using classic Control Panel or using a direct command.

Press WIN+R keys together to open RUN dialog box. Now type intl.cpl and press Enter. It’ll open Region customization window.

STEP 2: Open Date and Time Format Customization Window

Now click on Additional Settings button in Region window. It’ll open Customize Format window where you can modify number, currency, date and time formats.

Since we want to customize date and time format, we’ll use Time and Date tabs.

STEP 3: Customize Time Format in Windows 11 Taskbar Clock

Go to Time tab and you’ll see 4 settings to customize:

• Short time
• Long time
• AM symbol
• PM symbol

To change Taskbar clock time appearance, we’ll need to modify Short Time format. By default it’s set to h:mm tt which means the time is shown in 12-hour format with AM/PM symbol.

h represents 12-hour time. If you want to show time in 24-hour format, change h to HH.

tt represents AM/PM symbols, if you want to show AM/PM symbols, keep tt. If you want to remove AM/PM symbols, delete tt from the format text box.

PS: You can quickly select available time formats using the drop-down list. Click on the down arrow showing at the end of the time format text box and you’ll get a list of predefined time formats.

Now the interesting part comes!

You can modify AM/PM symbols text to show any desired text string or name in Taskbar clock.

Just type your name or desired string in AM Symbol and PM Symbol text box and apply changes and it’ll immediately add the text string to Windows 11 Taskbar clock.

You can type any text string up to 12 characters long in the text box.

STEP 4: Customize Date Format in Windows 11 Taskbar Clock

To customize date format, go to Date tab and you’ll see 2 settings to customize:

• Short date
• Long date

To change Taskbar clock date appearance, we’ll need to modify Short date format. By default it’s set to M/d/yyyy which means the date is shown in numbers only.

M represents month number, d represents day number and yyyy represents year.

You can do as following:

If you want to show full month name in Windows 11 Taskbar clock (such as April), replace M with MMMM e.g. MMMM dd, yyyy.

If you want to show partial month name in Windows 11 Taskbar clock (such as Apr), replace M with MMM e.g. MMM dd, yyyy.

If you want to add full day name in Windows 11 Taskbar clock (such as Monday), add dddd in the beginning of the format string e.g. dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy.

If you want to add partial day name in Windows 11 Taskbar clock (such as Mon), add ddd in the beginning of the format string e.g. ddd, MMM dd, yyyy.

You can also show partial year number by replacing yyyy with yy only.

TIP: You can copy the format string from Long Date text box and paste it in the Short Date text box. Apply changes and it’ll display full date in Windows 11 Taskbar clock.

PS: You can quickly select available date formats using the drop-down list. Click on the down arrow showing at the end of the date format text box and you’ll get a list of predefined date formats.

So you see, customizing date and time format is Windows 11 is very easy and you can modify date/time format according to your requirements.

Reset Date and Time Format to Default Settings

There is a “Reset” button given on both Date and Time tabs which can be used to restore date/time format to default settings.

Customize Date and Time Format Using Registry Editor

When you customize date/time format in Windows 11, it stores the information in following key in Registry:

In right-side pane, look for following String values:

• s1159
• s2359
• sShortDate
• sShortTime

These strings contain the format strings which you changed using Region window.

You can directly modify the strings using registry Editor (regedit). To take effects, you’ll need to restart Explorer or your computer.

Also Check:

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