Clocks and Timers and Stopwatches Oh My!

Clocks and Timers and Stopwatches Oh My!

Using the Alarms & Clocks App in Windows 10

Windows 10’s Clocks and Alarms app lets you add time zones, create world clocks, set up timers, and includes a stopwatch.

Add Time Zones to your Windows Clock

First, let’s add some time zones to our clock. Click on the clock at the bottom right of your taskbar (assuming your taskbar is at the bottom on the screen) the click “Date and time settings” Now click, “Add clocks for different time zones”.

Now use the dropdown to add any time zone you want. You can add up to two time zones.

Make sure the boxes next to “Show this clock” are checked. You can choose to show one or two clocks. See?

World Clock

But wait…there’s more. If you are doing business around the world or just want to play around with different time zones worldwide, Windows 10 has you covered. First, you’ll need to open the Windows Alarms & Clocks app. Click the Start button, click all apps and choose Alarms & Clocks. Now you’re cookin’!

From the Alarms & Clocks app, you can set up World Time, Alarms, Timers and Stopwatch. We’re going to cover World Time, Timers, and the stopwatch. Alarms are just as easy to use – you can play around with them later.

First, we’re going to delve into World Time. So in the Alarms & Clocks app, click World Time (at the top):

Click the + sign to add as many locations as you want and they’ll appear on the map. Also, note the areas in daylight show up as lighter, and the locations where it is dark show up as shaded areas. Logical, right?

Timers

In the Alarms & Clocks app, click on Timer in the toolbar. See?

Time number one is already set at 15:30. That’s just an example you can add timers for any amount of time – 20 minutes for EB’s total workday …

Or 1 hour of snoozing for TC – for example.

Now EB won’t work over her 20 minutes and TC will get his 1 hour of shut eye tonight.

EB likes to make sure I don’t sleep past my time so she likes to make the timer nice and big. See the red box below? Click the double-sided arrow to make the clock full screen.

Now she can see it from the bar and make sure I don’t oversleep. In the red rectangle above you can see three controls. From left to right: Reset the timer, stop the countdown and go back to normal view.

So what do you do with a timer you don’t want or don’t want any longer. Glad you asked!

At the bottom right of the Timer window, you see several horizontal lines. Click on that (if you hover over it, you’ll see it says “Manage”).

Now see the little garbage cans that appear next to each timer? Just click the garbage can next to the timer you don’t want and click the checkmark at the bottom to save your changes.

Stopwatch

If you want to play around with the Stopwatch feature, click on Stopwatch at time of the Alarms & Clocks app:

You’ll see the stopwatch is set to 00:00:00.00 – Hours, Minutes, Seconds, and 100th seconds. To start the stopwatch click on the > arrow (see below).

As you can see I got under EB’s skin in just under 15 seconds – 14.82 seconds to be exact. Whew, did she get mad at me! To stop the time click the flag. To reset it, click on the circle with two vertical lines in it – see?

If you want a bigger, more beautiful, easier-to-read stopwatch, just click the double-arrow icon…see? Look up! Now look down, you’ll see the arrows pointing toward each other, which means you want to leave the pretty full view and go back to the drab gray view. See below:

Now you know a lot about Windows Alarms and Clocks app. Go forth and experiment with it. We hope you find many uses for the features included in Windows 10 Alarms and Clocks app.

Don’t forget to play with the alarm feature – it’s alarming.

Add Time Zones to your Windows Clock

World Clock

Timers

Stopwatch

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