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Occasionally, your computer may revert to displaying military time for your system clock with Windows XP. Common times for this would be when your computer needs repair, etc and it comes back to you with the clock set wrong.
Open Control Panel
Open "Regional and Language Options"
Click "Customize"
Click on the "Time" tab
Change "Time Format" section to h:mm:ss tt
Be sure ":" for the time separator and AM and PM are selected on the next couple of lines. They may be set here already.
Click "Apply" and "Ok" on each open window.
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Comments
llibutti said
on 12/17/2008 THANK YOU!!!! WhooHooo! I finally decided to fix this annoying issue and your article was perfecto!
missnice104 said
on 8/27/2008 You are very good!!! Great article!!! Thanks so much!! Very smart!!
bobbiej said
on 8/20/2008 I just took a virus out of my computer and suddenly I had military time. I couldn't find any solution on the windows site. Thanks for your help!! I really appreciate your time posting this information.
MidniteWriter said
on 8/18/2008 Great article, thanks!
Vanillatte said
on 8/18/2008 Cool! Very easy! Thanks!