Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
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Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
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Re: Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
#2If it's just for benchmarks, why not make it a preference (defaulted off), so benchmarks can be run with the default settings (off) just fine, but people can turn it on if they want to?
Re: Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
#3I always switch it on (KDE).
Re: Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
#4On a more practical note, why would you want to have seconds on the clock? I find that most of the time I don't want to know the time to a precision of better than 5 minutes. That may just be me, but when someone asks the time and I read it off my phone as 3:56 it really bothers me and sometimes I convert that to 5-to-4 just to avoid what in most cases is arbitrary extra precision. Sure there are times when minutes count, and there are occasions when I want to time something to the second, but from a UI perspective those are not common use cases that warrant screen real estate for extra digits especially back then.
Re: Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
#5If it's just for benchmarks, why not make it a preference (defaulted off), so benchmarks can be run with the default settings (off) just fine, but people can turn it on if they want to?
1) People with it on would say "Windows is slow".
2) Because it adds code to maintain that doesn't need to be.
Re: Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
#6On a more practical note, why would you want to have seconds on the clock? I find that most of the time I don't want to know the time to a precision of better than 5 minutes. That may just be me, but when someone asks the time and I read it off my phone as 3:56 it really bothers me and sometimes I convert that to 5-to-4 just to avoid what in most cases is arbitrary extra precision. Sure there are times when minutes c…
>On a more practical note, why would you want to have seconds on the clock?
for timing things.
For example, it's super easy to check a heart rate if you don't need to provide timing or rhythm.
Or waiting on ramen , or steeping tea. Lots of reasons.
Re: Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
#7On a more practical note, why would you want to have seconds on the clock? I find that most of the time I don't want to know the time to a precision of better than 5 minutes. That may just be me, but when someone asks the time and I read it off my phone as 3:56 it really bothers me and sometimes I convert that to 5-to-4 just to avoid what in most cases is arbitrary extra precision. Sure there are times when minutes c…
Seems like you've answered your own question. Typically this is configurable, so that people who want the seconds to always be visible can have it.
Re: Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
#8If it's just for benchmarks, why not make it a preference (defaulted off), so benchmarks can be run with the default settings (off) just fine, but people can turn it on if they want to?
1) People with it on would say "Windows is slow". 2) Because it adds code to maintain that doesn't need to be.
Displaying seconds is a valuable feature, so it's not a matter of having unnecessary code. As for being slow, the ability to display seconds was removed because of the minimum system requirements for Windows. Anyone with a machine that has more than the bare minimum can probably spare the kilobytes necessary to draw seconds.
Re: Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
#9On a more practical note, why would you want to have seconds on the clock? I find that most of the time I don't want to know the time to a precision of better than 5 minutes. That may just be me, but when someone asks the time and I read it off my phone as 3:56 it really bothers me and sometimes I convert that to 5-to-4 just to avoid what in most cases is arbitrary extra precision. Sure there are times when minutes c…
On macOS, it’s a useful indicator of when the system has frozen/kernel panic, which unfortunately happens far too often.
Re: Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
#10On a more practical note, why would you want to have seconds on the clock? I find that most of the time I don't want to know the time to a precision of better than 5 minutes. That may just be me, but when someone asks the time and I read it off my phone as 3:56 it really bothers me and sometimes I convert that to 5-to-4 just to avoid what in most cases is arbitrary extra precision. Sure there are times when minutes c…
>On a more practical note, why would you want to have seconds on the clock? for timing things. For example, it's super easy to check a heart rate if you don't need to provide timing or rhythm. Or waiting on ramen , or steeping tea. Lots of reasons.
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