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Clock

Hi Everyone,
Could some one tell me how to change the clock from 24 hours to 12 hours. I have set regional settings to the US and that didn't help.
Cheers,
Alex

go back to regional settings; at the bottom is a tab 'time'; in there look at time style. You want hh:mm:ss not the hh:mm:ss tt one. That is 24 hr (it will show you above the time style. HTH

Thanks for the reply, it was set to the HH:mm:ss with time seperator at : and the am/pm symbols set, however it is still displaying in 24 hour mode.

I think you need H:mm:ss the double uppercase H normally is the indication for 24 hour time

D'Oh. Sorry I misread your thread. My instructions are for 24hr.
Follow simon_darley advice.

Thanks guys. After playing with it (I never noticed scroll arrows) the format should use a lower case h.
Cheers

Strange glitch with the new imate 2.17 rom

I installed the imate rom 2.17 on my Tmobile MDA (USA) and I get this very strange glitch, initially the clock is set on the 24 hour setting instead of using AM/PM so I go into settings and change the regional setting to US english the defualt is united kingdom english, and when I click ok this resolves the problem, temporarily. until I soft reset the phone. Then the 24 hour clock is put back for good. after I soft reset the phone no matter which regional setting I use there is no more am/pm, there 24 hour clock is there to stay my only option is to hard reset the phone, and start all over, but I reach the same point because whenever I soft reset I am back where i started,
PLEASE PLEASE help me, I do not have the brain power to read the 24 hour clock how should I know what 17:30 means, its 5:30 pm for god sake

When you go into Regional Settings have you actually gone to the "Time" tab?
There you can set it. The ones that start with hh: are the 12 hour clock. The ones that start with HH are the 24 hour clock. Doesn't matter. When you click on one it shows you an example of what the time will look like.
Hope this helps

ccisn said:
When you go into Regional Settings have you actually gone to the "Time" tab?
There you can set it. The ones that start with hh: are the 12 hour clock. The ones that start with HH are the 24 hour clock. Doesn't matter. When you click on one it shows you an example of what the time will look like.
Hope this helps
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Yeah once I have reset the device when I go to the time top only two options are available HH:MM:SS and H:MM:SS the times with for the 12 hour clock arent even an option, its strange because I still have an option to set the am and pm

have you tried setting the STFmt value in the registry?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls\overrides\STFmt
chage the H or HH to h or hh

Ringtones dissapearing and stuck on military time

This is my first post here and Ive run into some trouble. Ive got a Tmobile MDA which I unlocked and flashed to Cingulars 2.17 rom (I am with Cingular). Ive overclocked and changed the popular registry tweaks and its running great.
Problem is with my ringtone. Ive set an mp3 as a ringtone and it got moved to the phones memory. Okay got that part, but after a couple calls it reverts back to the crappy default ringtone. My mp3 is still in the list but it isnt set to ring anymore. This has been happening since I got it.
Also I cant get it out of military time. I found only one post reffering to this and I couldnt fix it on my phone. I went to settings/ system/ regional/ time and there is no option for changing it. Only for 00:00:00 and 0:00:00 time format. Both show 24 hour clock only.
Seems like simple problems but I cant find the answer anywhere, please help!
Dave

Assmanof said:
Also I cant get it out of military time. I found only one post reffering to this and I couldnt fix it on my phone. I went to settings/ system/ regional/ time and there is no option for changing it. Only for 00:00:00 and 0:00:00 time format. Both show 24 hour clock only.
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Go back to the same drop-down list and tap on the down arrow on the list to scroll down until you see h:mm:ss tt or hh:mm:ss tt. The lower case 'h', 'm' and 's' indicate 12hr clock format. Upper case letters which you initially saw are for 24hr clock format.

Thanks Keitaro! I only saw the 2 options and didnt notice it scrolled. Awesome! Now if my ringtone stayed put Id be set....for now :wink:

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

Re: How to get Today clock showing AM/PM ?
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.

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

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​

Clock from AM/PM to 24 Hours

Is there a way to change this?

zliverfox said:
Is there a way to change this?
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Yes.
If you are asking how to change it, then the answer is: Start -> Settings -> System -> Regional Settings -> Time

Thank you very mutch

I've been trying to do this - I somehow managed it with my Diamond, but no luck with the HD yet - I'm trying to go the other way, from 24hr TO am/pm - but if UK English regional settings are selected, 24hr appears to be the only default option and there's no visibly simple way to switch it (unf... not that I've found at any rate)

Same problem
I want to switch to 24 hour clock. When I change it in the regional settings it does nothing for the touch flo 3d clock....

It should, are you using the stock ROM? Change it so you get a 24 hour clock in the title bar then soft reset and see if TouchFlo catches up.

in regional settings, goto tab: time,
time shoud be: HH:MM:ss

I'm sorry
I'm sorry,
What I meant to say, was that it changes to the 24 hour format but i thought 'HH' meant to have the leading zero for 00:00 - 09:00, instead i get 0:00 - 9:00.
Not a big deal...

clmntch said:
I'm sorry,
What I meant to say, was that it changes to the 24 hour format but i thought 'HH' meant to have the leading zero for 00:00 - 09:00, instead i get 0:00 - 9:00.
Not a big deal...
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In fact, the 2 "h" ("hh" or "HH") means to put a leading zero. The capital "H" instead means to use a 24 hour clock, rather than a 12 hour one (which is obtained through "h" or "hh").
So if you want a 2-digit, 24 hour clock, you should use "HH".
I had the same problem and this solved for me. Hope that it helps you too.
Thanks
maTTeo

Anyone has any idea to switch to 12-hour clock with AM/PM for FLIP clock? I manage to do it for small clock (as well as everywhere else) but the flip clock just stays at 24-hour format even after changing Regional settings and NLS registry key.
I remember when I got the HD, the flip clock was in 12-hour format but after installing certain apps it converted to a 24-hour.