Newbie Question - How to get Today clock showing AM/PM ?

[kevntrace]

Owned a Cingular 8525 for just about a month now. So glad I found this forum, its full of wonderful information from a superb community.

I've just upgraded to XDA Live 0.2 and I have a question, although I don't think this question is specific to that version of WM.

The clock on the Today screen shows the time on the top line - but it doesn't show the AM/PM indicator. I believe this was the same under the Cingular theme under WM5 that came with the phone. If my memory servers me correctly, I soon found a way to modify that on WM5 and had the clock showing the AM/PM indicator.

Problem is I made that change in my first week of ownership, and now that I've just upgraded to XDA Live 0.2, I've completely forgotten how I did.

There doesn't seem to be any way to modify the display format in the Settings->Today applet. Maybe it was a registry change I made???

Anyhow, if anyone knows a quick way to make this setting, even if it means installing a separate clock app which replaces the default, I would love to know.

BTW I did make a search on the Hermes forum before submitting this post, but I couldn't find anything relevant.

[fun_key]

I am not sure, but this may be connected with the regionnal settings. Try to play with those option which are located in settings

[agentdr8]

I've got Wisbar Advance 2 on my 8525 and by setting the time format to 'h:mm tt' it displays the AM/PM. Maybe there's a reg hack that can do the same with the standard toolbar clock?

[marisa4755]

Try:

Settings/System/Regional settings/Time/Time Style

and then choose the H:mm:ss option on the drop down menu.

Hope this works for you

[MikeChannon]

The answer to this question already exists in previous posts.
The answer to this question already exists in the wiki.

If the above post by marissa does not work (remember you can scroll up as well as down in this option) then change the registry:

Go to:

HKLM\nls\overrides

and tap on key STFmt

Some valid entries for this key include

h:mm t ........(12hr, A/P)
h:mm tt .......(12hr with AM/PM)
H:mm:ss ......(24hr)
h:mm:ss tt ...(12hr, seconds, AM/PM)
hh:mm:ss tt .(12hr, seconds AM/PM, leading 0)

Once you have done this and saved it, LONG press the on off button and wait for the warning pop up saying device will shut down and unsaved data will be lost. Tap yes and then long press on/off button to restart. Do not use soft reset or else you may find the changes you just made will be lost and you'll have to repeat the process.

You may find phone is in flight mode on restart but just turn it off.


Mike

[kevntrace]

Thanks Marisa & Mike. I forgot to mention that I had taken a look at the Regional Settings applet too, and already set that up to show the h:mm:ss tt format.

Still didn't work on displaying the clock. So I then used Mike's tip about the registry. On looking at that key I saw it was already set to h:mm:ss tt. I modified it anyway, saved, and did long shutdown, long startup.

On reboot, I don't see the clock displayed with the AM/PM indicator. Oh well, thanks anyway. I'll go and post this over in the XDA Live 0.2 thread - maybe it is something to do with this ROM after all.

Thanks again.

[MikeChannon]

Sorry, thought it was just the am/pm that you were trying to show. Getting the clock to show in the first place is different. Will post later, unless someone beats me to it!
At work at present.

Mike

[MikeChannon]

Try some of these:

Change the display of the clock in the taskbar

The clock in the taskbar can be changed to show not only the time, but also the date, or just the date, or nothing at all.
To show nothing:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TBOpt = 0 (DWORD decimal)
To show just the clock:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TBOpt = 1 (DWORD decimal)
To show just the date:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TBOpt = 2 (DWORD decimal)
To show both the date and the clock:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TBOpt = 3 (DWORD decimal)
Note 1: If you switch to the Analog clock display, the date will remain visible -through- the Analog clock
Note 2: Setting the clock to show 'nothing' will still keep the reserved space, showing the taskbar background, and obscure any icons that will shift to the right.
Note 3: Your date may get obscured by the space reserved for the OK/Close button in the top-right. You can fix this my adding spaces at the end of your 'Short Date Format'. See also the tweak on 'Change the Short Date Format'


The wiki has lots of this type of setting see here:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=WM5_Tweaks_Other

Mike