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Force all users to use 24 hour time

Asked by: justinbillig

I have a box that is shared amongst multiple users and I need to force all login's to use 24 hour time. I am admin on the box but I don't have access to group policy's or the actual users themselves. I would like a solution that would work for any user who logs in, not just a preset list of users. I tried looking around for a command line process that I could put in the startup folder but I couldn't find anything. I modified the date time settings for myself hoping that it would propogate down to all users but it didn't. Please provide some direction.

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2008-11-06 at 05:57:45ID23881451
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24 Hour Time For All Users

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Answers

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-11-06 at 06:14:20ID: 22895089

Greetings.  A similar question was asked before and an expert provided this answer.  See if it matches your needs:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Windows_Networking/Q_21488663.html

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-11-06 at 06:15:07ID: 22895098

You can use a local group policy on that pc.  From the start > run menu, enter in gpedit.msc

 

by: justinbilligPosted on 2008-11-06 at 06:38:50ID: 22895379

samiam41

That solution looks good but I have very little knowledge on how to do this. I opened up the group policy editor on my machine ( I am going to test it there first ) but I found no way to import it in. Where do I put it?

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-11-06 at 09:21:50ID: 22897362

Gotcha.  Let me write a quick guide on how to do this.

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-11-06 at 09:59:35ID: 22897735

Here we go.  

-Open up notepad and copy/paste the settings from the other post (I included them below to save a step).
-Save the notepad doc as MilitaryTime.adm in the c:\Windows\Inf directory
-Run gpedit.msc from start > run
-Under "Computer Configuration" > Administrative Templates (right click Admin Templates and choose View > Filtering > and uncheck "Only show settings that can be fully managed")
-Right click on Administrative Templates again and now choose "Add/Remove Templates"
-Choose Add > browse to the c:\windows\inf directory and select the militarytime.adm
-choose "Close"

*Restart pc

----[MilitaryTime.adm]----
CLASS USER
CATEGORY "Time settings"
POLICY "Use military time"
KEYNAME "Control Panel\International"
ACTIONLISTON
; Settings for military time:
  VALUENAME "iTime" VALUE "1"
  VALUENAME "iTLZero" VALUE "1"
  VALUENAME "s1159" VALUE ""
  VALUENAME "s2359" VALUE ""
  VALUENAME "sTime" VALUE ":"
  VALUENAME "sTimeFormat" VALUE "HH:mm:ss"
  VALUENAME "iTimePrefix" VALUE "0"
  VALUENAME "sDate" VALUE "."
  VALUENAME "sShortDate" VALUE "dd.MM.yyyy"
  VALUENAME "sLongDate" VALUE "dddd, d. MMMM yyyy"
END ACTIONLISTON
ACTIONLISTOFF
; Settings for normal time:
  VALUENAME "iTime" VALUE "0"
  VALUENAME "iTLZero" VALUE "0"
  VALUENAME "s1159" VALUE "am"
  VALUENAME "s2359" VALUE "pm"
  VALUENAME "sTime" VALUE ":"
  VALUENAME "sTimeFormat" VALUE "h:mm"
  VALUENAME "iTimePrefix" VALUE "0"
  VALUENAME "sDate" VALUE "/"
  VALUENAME "sShortDate" VALUE "mm/dd/yyyy"
  VALUENAME "sLongDate" VALUE "dddd, d. MMMM yyyy"
END ACTIONLISTOFF
END POLICY
END CATEGORY
----[MilitaryTime.adm]----

                                              
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by: samiam41Posted on 2008-11-06 at 11:57:30ID: 22898848

Correction!

Please see updated code below!

CLASS USER
CATEGORY "Time settings"
POLICY "Use military time"
KEYNAME "Control Panel\International"
ACTIONLISTON
; Settings for military time:
  VALUENAME "iTime" VALUE "1"
  VALUENAME "iTLZero" VALUE "1"
  VALUENAME "s1159" VALUE ""
  VALUENAME "s2359" VALUE ""
  VALUENAME "sTime" VALUE ":"
  VALUENAME "sTimeFormat" VALUE "HH:mm:ss"
  VALUENAME "iTimePrefix" VALUE "0"
  VALUENAME "sDate" VALUE "."
  VALUENAME "sShortDate" VALUE "dd.MM.yyyy"
  VALUENAME "sLongDate" VALUE "dddd, d. MMMM yyyy"
END ACTIONLISTON
ACTIONLISTOFF
; Settings for normal time:
  VALUENAME "iTime" VALUE "0"
  VALUENAME "iTLZero" VALUE "0"
  VALUENAME "s1159" VALUE "am"
  VALUENAME "s2359" VALUE "pm"
  VALUENAME "sTime" VALUE ":"
  VALUENAME "sTimeFormat" VALUE "h:mm"
  VALUENAME "iTimePrefix" VALUE "0"
  VALUENAME "sDate" VALUE "/"
  VALUENAME "sShortDate" VALUE "mm/dd/yyyy"
  VALUENAME "sLongDate" VALUE "dddd, d. MMMM yyyy"
END ACTIONLISTOFF
END POLICY
END CATEGORY
                                              
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by: samiam41Posted on 2008-11-06 at 12:00:20ID: 22898877

Also, when I tested it on a virtual pc, I put the militarytime.adm template under "Computer Configuration" first and then removed it. I left it under "User Configuration" and got the best results.

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-11-08 at 13:49:56ID: 22913893

Any update?

 

by: justinbilligPosted on 2008-11-11 at 12:04:15ID: 22933676

Sam,
         It didnt seem to work. I added it under user configuration > administrative emplates. If i open the add / remove templates dialog box it is there (MilitaryTime, size 1kb, modified today) but My time is still in AM/PM.

Any direction or thoughts?

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-11-11 at 14:13:31ID: 22934930

Interesting.  Looks like I will be testing this further.  Just to make sure I ask all the stupid questions, did you reboot this computer twice after applying the lgpo?

 

by: justinbilligPosted on 2008-11-12 at 06:34:56ID: 22939869

Twice. Not at the time but I have since restarted now 3 times and it still is AM / PM.

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-11-12 at 07:01:20ID: 22940144

; )  

That should be enough.  I had to ask.  Working on it now.

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-11-18 at 07:11:51ID: 22985249

Got stuck in our building's remodeling when it got to our server room.  Sorry for the hang up.

I am going to spend some time this morning on this and will have you a concrete answer.

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-11-18 at 07:40:32ID: 22985553

Ugh!  Leave it to me to make things difficult.

Forget the admin template.  Just make the following changes in your registry.  The first way is manual, the second is in script form in case you want to run it in your network.

Option 1
A.  Open registry editor (regedit) and browse to HKU > .Default > Control Panel > International
B.  When Internation is selected, on the right find the value "sTimeFormat"
C.  Change the value to HH:mm:ss (remove the tt since it relates to am/pm)
D.  If you don't want the time to show the zero (0100), just enter in H and you will get (100)

*Restart

Option 2
reg add "HKU\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International" /V sTimeFormat /F /D "HH:mm:ss"

-I just ran it on a virtual pc and it works.  Give it a shot when you have a second.

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