On 7/23/24 10:21 PM, MajorLanGod wrote:

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the time
and date?

This T-Clock works. You can customize the clock heavily or simply.
I've used it on win10 and just upgraded to 11 and it seems to still work. There IS a lot of
complaints that it does not work on 11 but so far it does for me.

https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock
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Al

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MajorLanGod <lonelydad58@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the time
and date?

Make room for more info. Increase the height of the Taskbar so it has 2
rows. Then you'll see:

hh:mm:ss AM/PM
DOW
mm/dd/yyyy

in the clock section in the Taskbar to the right of the systray. This
is when the Taskbar is horizontal, like at the bottom or top of the
screen. No idea what happens when the Taskbar is at the left or right
side of the screen.

With the extra space in the Taskbar, you can either just plow more icons
for programs into it, pin more apps to the Taskbar, or even use one row
for toolbars and use the other row for app icons (pinned or not).

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On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 02:21:52 GMT, MajorLanGod <lonelydad58@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the time
and date?

I always expand the task bar to two rows. A nice side effect of doing that is that the clock shows the day of the week.

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 24 Jul 2024 02:21:52 GMT, MajorLanGod <lonelydad58@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the time
and date?

I like to see that too.

If you make the task bar double height, it should show up.

Or have you done that already and for some reason it didn't?

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VanguardLH wrote:

MajorLanGod <lonelydad58@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the time
and date?

Make room for more info. Increase the height of the Taskbar so it has 2 rows. Then you'll see:

hh:mm:ss AM/PM
DOW
mm/dd/yyyy

in the clock section in the Taskbar to the right of the systray. This
is when the Taskbar is horizontal, like at the bottom or top of the
screen. No idea what happens when the Taskbar is at the left or right
side of the screen.

I have a landscape screen so put the talk bar vertically at the right of
the 1920x1200 screen. Even at its narrowest setting the clock shows
both time and date.

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Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

MajorLanGod <lonelydad58@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the time >>> and date?

Make room for more info. Increase the height of the Taskbar so it has 2
rows. Then you'll see:

hh:mm:ss AM/PM
DOW
mm/dd/yyyy

in the clock section in the Taskbar to the right of the systray. This
is when the Taskbar is horizontal, like at the bottom or top of the
screen. No idea what happens when the Taskbar is at the left or right
side of the screen.

I have a landscape screen so put the talk bar vertically at the right of
the 1920x1200 screen. Even at its narrowest setting the clock shows
both time and date.

I've periodically read about problems with the Taskbar in a vertical orientation, so I stayed away from that setup. When vertical, is the
Taskbar wider by default than it is taller in horizontal orientation?

https://i.pcmag.com/imagery/articles/03i4BFZfIg0Ke31wpRh9fPO-94.fit_lim.size_1600x900.v1625583990.png

For that vertical setup, seems the vertical Taskbar is fatter than the
default 1-row horizontal Taskbar. The width of the vertical Taskbar is
still adjustable. Can you make the vertical Taskbar thinner than what
is the default width?

Here's a guy that likes a super wide one:

https://static1.makeuseofimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/windows-vertical-taskbar.jpg

In my horizontal Taskbar, I show the addressbar toolbar. Wonder how it
could display in a vertical Taskbar unless it got rotated (and you'd
have to read its text rotated 90 degrees), if it gets truncated (you
can't see the entire string), or if it pops out wider than the vertical Taskbar's width when it gets focus.

As I've heard, Windows 11 won't let you move the Taskbar to the sides to
have it vertical. There is mention of registry edits to move the
Taskbar, but that's a pain to do, and most users won't do it.

https://pureinfotech.com/move-taskbar-top-side-windows-11/

<Aside>
I don't plan to move to Windows 11. No bang for the buck. I'll just
move from 10 to 12, or dump Windows and go to something like Linux Mint. Windows 12 will supposedly release when Windows 10 is slated to retire
(Oct 2025), but could be earlier. I'll wait another year, or 2, or 3,
after release before before moving to Windows 12, or go to something
else, like Linux Mint or Debian. Windows has become boring. About time
to get confused with the OS again.
</Aside>

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In article <XnsB1B8D943554EClonelydad58.gmail.co@85.12.62.251>, lonelydad58@gmail.com (MajorLanGod) wrote:

*From:* MajorLanGod <lonelydad58@gmail.com>
*Date:* Wed, 24 Jul 2024 02:21:52 GMT

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the
time and date?

Just hover over it with the mouse and it should show the day and time. Saves having to fiddle around with double-height taskbars which takes up space, especially if you're using a laptop.

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John

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VanguardLH wrote on Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:49:14 -0500 :

I've periodically read about problems with the Taskbar in a vertical orientation, so I stayed away from that setup. When vertical, is the
Taskbar wider by default than it is taller in horizontal orientation?

The reason my taskbar is vertical is simply that the width of a monitor is usually far greater than the height - which means you need every inch of
height (but you can easily dispense with width for a nice fat taskbar).

As for the day name in the clock - it's trivial to do with dsclock syntax.
<https://i.postimg.cc/RVsHGmnG/dsclock.jpg
<https://i.postimg.cc/sD6sDsgw/dsclock02.jpg
<https://i.postimg.cc/mrCGrsVY/dsclock03.jpg
<https://i.postimg.cc/hGrL20ZK/dsclock04.jpg
<https://i.postimg.cc/3r42Dnz6/dsclock05.jpg>

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:12:17 -0500, Char Jackson <none@none.invalid>
wrote:

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 02:21:52 GMT, MajorLanGod <lonelydad58@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the time >>and date?

I always expand the task bar to two rows. A nice side effect of doing that is >that the clock shows the day of the week.

I set my left-side, vertical, Win-7 taskbar to three icons wide about
ten years ago or more and it has stayed that way since.

My clock shows the day's name which is a good thing.

J.

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Big Al expressed precisely :

On 7/23/24 10:21 PM, MajorLanGod wrote:

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the time
and date?

This T-Clock works. You can customize the clock heavily or simply.
I've used it on win10 and just upgraded to 11 and it seems to still work. There IS a lot of complaints that it does not work on 11 but so far it does for me.

https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock

I use it on Win 10, works great, no more eye strain. A+

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Zo

UNFAIR: If life is unfair, why can't it be unfair in my favor?

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:06:46 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

MajorLanGod <lonelydad58@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the time
and date?

"Clock" in Control Panel? "Region and Language" has the settings for
the date formats. At least it does in Win-7. I'd suppose it is
probably called something else in Win-10 and 11.

Make room for more info. Increase the height of the Taskbar so it has 2 >rows. Then you'll see:

hh:mm:ss AM/PM
DOW
mm/dd/yyyy

in the clock section in the Taskbar to the right of the systray. This
is when the Taskbar is horizontal, like at the bottom or top of the
screen. No idea what happens when the Taskbar is at the left or right
side of the screen.

My taskbar is on the left side and my clock has had the day's name in
it for years. At least ten.

Win-7 box, 2013.

I have no idea how I did it, if I did it or whether it just sort of
happened when I moved the bar.

Oh, and I'm on 24-hour time so no "P.M." indicator. That I know I did
set in the clock settings in Control Panel. Division across the
Meridian confuses me. I used to work nights.

I've no idea whether you'll find this interesting but the pop-up
tool-tip has the date and day's name but not the clock time. The date
has the month's name in text in the tool-tip but as dd/mm/yyyy in the
systray icon. I probably set that eleven years ago, too. :)

With the extra space in the Taskbar, you can either just plow more icons
for programs into it, pin more apps to the Taskbar, or even use one row
for toolbars and use the other row for app icons (pinned or not).

"I moved the taskbar,
" but I did not move the goalpost things ..."

Now I've got that bouncing around behind my consciousness probably
for months. :)

J.

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:54:02 -0400, Big Al wrote:

On 7/23/24 10:21 PM, MajorLanGod wrote:

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the time
and date?

This T-Clock works. You can customize the clock heavily or simply.
I've used it on win10 and just upgraded to 11 and it seems to still work. There IS a lot of
complaints that it does not work on 11 but so far it does for me.

https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock

I've used it for many years (Tclock2). It shows me the RAM left, day and
date as Wed. 24 Jul. and time as hh mm ss
In the Properties it's: MM ddd.dd mmm. hh:nn:ss Why mins. are nn I don't know, other than MM is for memory.

https://win.softpedia.com/dyn-search.php?search_term=tclock
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Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

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Peter,

Why mins. are nn I don't know,

Because since "ye olden days" "mm" is already in use for the month number.

Just see for yourself what happens when you replace, in the properties, "nn" with "mm".

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:03:14 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 24 Jul 2024 02:21:52 GMT, MajorLanGod ><lonelydad58@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way to get the day of the week to display along with the time >>and date?

I like to see that too.

If you make the task bar double height, it should show up.

Or have you done that already and for some reason it didn't?

One of the tweakers will add the seconds to the time display, 7+ Taskbar Tweaker.

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:21:49 -0000 (UTC),
Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:

VanguardLH wrote on Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:49:14 -0500 :

I've periodically read about problems with the Taskbar in a vertical
orientation, so I stayed away from that setup. When vertical, is the
Taskbar wider by default than it is taller in horizontal orientation?

The reason my taskbar is vertical is simply that the width of a monitor is >usually far greater than the height

That's because you are sitting up straight. If you were lying on your
side, it would be the opposite.

- which means you need every inch of
height (but you can easily dispense with width for a nice fat taskbar).

I'll grant you that in web browsers with the laptop, because it's screen
is not as tall as the desktop's, more and more often, I have to use F11
in order to get see the X or the Cancel box to get rid of some big box
that they have covering what I want to read. And then use F11 again to
go back. I suppose if I moved my taskbar to the side this all would
not be necessary.

As for the day name in the clock - it's trivial to do with dsclock syntax.
<https://i.postimg.cc/RVsHGmnG/dsclock.jpg <https://i.postimg.cc/sD6sDsgw/dsclock02.jpg <https://i.postimg.cc/mrCGrsVY/dsclock03.jpg <https://i.postimg.cc/hGrL20ZK/dsclock04.jpg <https://i.postimg.cc/3r42Dnz6/dsclock05.jpg>

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On 24/07/2024 12:21, Andrew wrote:

VanguardLH wrote on Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:49:14 -0500 :

I've periodically read about problems with the Taskbar in a vertical
orientation, so I stayed away from that setup. When vertical, is the
Taskbar wider by default than it is taller in horizontal orientation?

The reason my taskbar is vertical is simply that the width of a monitor is usually far greater than the height - which means you need every inch of height (but you can easily dispense with width for a nice fat taskbar).

As for the day name in the clock - it's trivial to do with dsclock syntax.
<https://i.postimg.cc/RVsHGmnG/dsclock.jpg
<https://i.postimg.cc/sD6sDsgw/dsclock02.jpg
<https://i.postimg.cc/mrCGrsVY/dsclock03.jpg
<https://i.postimg.cc/hGrL20ZK/dsclock04.jpg
<https://i.postimg.cc/3r42Dnz6/dsclock05.jpg>

This one?
- http://www.dualitysoft.com/dsclock/


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wasbit

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wasbit wrote on Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:36:19 +0100 :

This one?
- http://www.dualitysoft.com/dsclock/

Yes. Given I randomly change my timezone for anti-fingerprinting purposes,
I've tried these taskbar clocks and found dsclock to fit my needs best.
clocx <http://www.clocx.net/download.php>
dsclock <https://www.dualitysoft.com/dsclock/index.html>
tclock <https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock>

While dsclock sits anywhere, when you put it on top of the taskbar,
you might then want to match the font sizes and background colors.

I don't know where fonts, sizes and taskbar colors are set, but
empirical testing on my taskbar resulted in these syntax choices.
Display syntax = #085|ddd ddMMM or ddd dd|#085 or dddMMMdd|[#085]
Font & size = Segoe UI Semibold 9 pt
Taskbar = R=35, G=57, B=66, Hex=233942 H=195 S=46 V=25 Opacity=255
Notification = R=47 G=68 B=77 Hex=2F444D H=198 S=38 V=30 Opacity=255
[x] Use custom font
[x] Use custom colors
[x] Load program on startup
[x] Lock right border
[x] Always on top

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On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:36:11 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:

Peter,

Why mins. are nn I don't know,

Because since "ye olden days" "mm" is already in use for the month number.

Just see for yourself what happens when you replace, in the properties, "nn" with "mm".

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Well, it works - and it's not "mm" it's "MM"
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Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

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On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:49:14 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

<Aside>
I don't plan to move to Windows 11. No bang for the buck. I'll just
move from 10 to 12, or dump Windows and go to something like Linux Mint. >Windows 12 will supposedly release when Windows 10 is slated to retire
(Oct 2025), but could be earlier. I'll wait another year, or 2, or 3,
after release before before moving to Windows 12, or go to something
else, like Linux Mint or Debian. Windows has become boring. About time
to get confused with the OS again.
</Aside>

I probably will since sometime in the next 6 months I expect to go to
what's essentially a new computer - mine was pretty spiffy (as in high
end video card) once new but I expect it will be mostly my hard drives
I'll be taking forward

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