<story><title>Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031010-00/?p=42203</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>On a more practical note, why would you want to have seconds on the clock? I find that most of the time I don&amp;#x27;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.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031010-00/?p=42203</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>achivetta</author><text>It might not be the memory concern it once was, but today it might very well be a power concern.  Modern laptop display pipelines can save power if they don&amp;#x27;t have to redraw any of the screen: constantly updating status bar animations break that.[1]&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;videos&amp;#x2F;play&amp;#x2F;wwdc2013&amp;#x2F;712&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;videos&amp;#x2F;play&amp;#x2F;wwdc2013&amp;#x2F;712&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; (I think the relatively short graphics section mentions this.  Can&amp;#x27;t seem to find the talk that goes into it in more detail...)</text></comment>