Anyone know a way to immediately show the seconds of a file's date modified property in the GUI? So if you create a file, any file in any directory, right-click and choose Properties, the date modified (if it's recent) will say something like "dd/mm/yyy hh:mm, one minute ago" – reminder this is in Windows 7. Windows XP did it normally. Then they changed something.
If you wait a while, eventually you'll see the seconds, I'm not sure how long a while is, but this is incredibly annoying if you want to troubleshoot something that relies on the seconds of timestamps… is there a setting? registry key I can change perhaps?
I'm literally using Chrome, pasting in the path of the directory to be able to see the seconds quickly (as a workaround) but would be nice to be able to use Win7.
Best Answer
I found a solution at http://www.nicholasoverstreet.com/2010/03/windows-7-annoyance-file-properties/.
Go to 'Control Panel' → 'Region and Language' → 'Additional Settings' → Date tab.
Remove the string
dddd(e.g. change it toddd) click 'Apply' and it should work fine.Explanation:
'Rightclick file properties' uses the value
"Long Date" + empty_space + "Long Time". Long date is 'dddd, d MMMM yyyy' by default, and 'Long Time' ish:mm:ss tt. However, it looks like as long as you have the stringddddin 'Long Date', it may sometimes ignore your 'Long Time' settings, overriding it with "x minutes ago".