#UTC CLOCK IN SYSTRAY WINDOWS 10#

Anyway, I started idly poking the time settings as we talked about an entirely different thing, assuming I could just, you know, right click and then click something like “Display 24-hour time.” Ha. As for why I use Windows at all, given that I spend my days working in Linux… the short answer is Steam, but that’s another tale. And yes, I realize these tools can mostly be configured to show either local time or UTC, but I am not going to let my laziness cloud the point of a good story. Well, I thought, that would be nice: one less step when mentally converting from a server timestamp to log times in kibana or Google Cloud console.

#UTC CLOCK IN SYSTRAY WINDOWS 10#

The other day I was on a zoom call with my friend and colleague Aaron and I noticed that his Windows 10 desktop displayed 24-hour time. Still, I do want to make all the on-the-fly converting I have to do as easy as possible. I’ve considered just changing everything in my life to UTC military time but I would irritate my wife and you can’t avoid hitting a disconnect somewhere. My colleagues are often reporting timestamps in their own local time, which given that we’ve been a remote team for something like forever means those might be EST, EDT, CDT, CST, PDT, PST… you get the point… moreover you’ve probably lived it just like the rest of us. Our slack channel shows 12-hour local time, as does the kitchen clock and my phone. Yeah, I hate time zones, and you probably do too.

Utc clock in systray