How to Show Day of Week in Windows 10 Taskbar Clock

You can see the clock with current time and date at the taskbar in Windows 10. If you also want to show day of week in Windows 10 taskbar clock, you can customize it. Check below how to add week day to clock in Windows 10 with 2 ways.

How to Show Day of Week in Windows 10 Taskbar Clock from Control Panel

Step 1. Open Control Panel in Windows 10. You can press Windows + R, type control panel, and press Enter to open it.

Step 2. Next click Clock and Region in Control Panel, and click Region.

Step 3. Click Additional settings button in Region window. And click Date tab.

Step 4. Then you can customize the way the date is displayed under Date formats.

You can add “ddd” at the beginning of the Short date field under Date formats, and click OK to add week day to clock in Windows 10.

You can also copy “dddd, MMMM d, yyyy” in Long date field to the Short date field to display the entire date as a long date format at the taskbar.

You can also customize the date format using the codes below. Here take Mon, April 6, 2020 as example. You should use ddd, MMMM d, yyyy in Short date field. If you want to show the day of week and the date as Mon, 4/6/20, you should set the data format as ddd, M/d/yy.

• d = 6
• dd = 06
• ddd = Wed
• dddd = Wednesday
• M = 4
• MM = 04
• MMM = Jul
• MMMM = July
• y or yy = 20
• yyy or yyyy = 2020

Add Week Day to Clock in Windows 10 via Registry Editor

You can also show day of week in Windows 10 taskbar clock by editing the registry in Windows 10. Check how to do it below.s

Step 1. You can press Windows + R, type regedit, and press Enter to open Registry Editor in Windows 10.

Step 2. Next click as the following path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International.

Step 3. In the right window, double-click sShortDate key, and add “ddd” at the beginning of Value data. Click OK to save the changes. Restart your Windows computer to make the changes take effect. You should see the day of week is displayed in system tray clock at Windows taskbar.

Bottom Line

If you want to show day of week in Windows 10 taskbar clock, you can try one of the 2 ways above to easily realize it.

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