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Re:Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003) by JoshTriplett on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:26PM (#13962613)
And on current systems, updating every second would decrease battery life by preventing your system from sleeping. Modern systems can easily sleep for more than a second at a time, even with the screen on (and not updating).

I also, personally, can't stand to have distractions like that on my screen away from where I want to focus.

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Re:Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003) by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:27PM (#13962620)
That's why Apple got rid of the Time Machine icon animation, IIRC.
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Re:Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003) by adviceadam on Sunday March 26, 2017 @04:56PM (#13963246)
I had completely forgotten about the Time Machine icon animating before. Interesting. Odd choice perhaps because I imagine most people have the hard drive at their desk, when wall power is easily available. There is a setting that enables backing up on battery power but I think the default value is disabled.
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Re:Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003) by Sunset on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:32AM (#13966017)
> Modern systems can easily sleep for more than a second at a time, even with the screen on (and not updating).

Good luck with that with quadrillion services chugging away in the background including file indexing service and all the spying bullshit.

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Re:Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003) by ams6110 on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:31PM (#13962662)
Displaying the clock in Mac OS doesn't prevent the machine from sleeping, whether seconds are shown or not.
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Re:Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003) by kristofferR on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:35PM (#13962689)
He is talking about a different form of sleeping.
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