for some reason, the clock on my taskbar displays in army time. when i double-click into the date/time manager, it appears to be normal (12-hour clock). anyone know how to get it to display properly?

Go to Regional and Language options in Control Panel. Select customise. Select time.

Modify the time format as appropriate. HH gives you a 24 hour clock. hh a twelve hour clock.

Stuart

sweet. thank you!

Just so you know, it's Military Time or 24-hour clock, not just Army time. :)

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Yes, we must be politically correct musn't we.

Nothing to do with political correctness. More people than the Military use the 24 hours lock. Scientists off all kinds use it, anywhere where precise unambiguous time is required.

Imagine the occupants if the ISS using a twelve hour clock. Their day lasts about three hours. They in fact use UTC which is always expresed in 24 hour format.

Stuart

UTC - aka Zulu. Which I believe is also known as GMT.

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Jennifer, if you want to be really pedantic and precise, there is a difference between UTC and GMT, but it is never more than one second.

GMT takes its timing source from astronimical time, that is the time it takes the earth to do one revolution on its axis. UTC uses Atomic Clocks which are extremely accurate, within one second over billions of years. Over time the two will get out of sync due to the fact the Earths rotation is slowing down. When the difference approaches 0.9 of a second, a second is added or subtracted from UTC to bring them back into alignment again - known as a leap second.

This usual happens about once every seven years, the last time being in December 2007. So 2007 was one second longer than you thought it was.

Then there is TAI (Time Atomic Inernational) and GPS time which are different again.

Stuart

Wow. Impressive. :)

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