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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by jjj123 on Sunday July 13, 2025 @02:16PM (#44552306)
No, I think they’re arguing that showing seconds in the system tray shouldn’t be so inefficient that turning it off gives back double-digit percentage energy savings.

I think we all agree there needs to be some additional power draw for the seconds feature, but it’s unclear how much power is truly necessary vs this just being a poor implementation.

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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by ants_everywhere on Sunday July 13, 2025 @03:12PM (#44552704)
there's a dramatic increase in how frequently you interrupt the CPU to update the display. That is true at the OS level no matter how efficient you make the second display code.
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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by troupo on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:26AM (#44557345)
How about web views throughout the OS? The new start menu written in React?

There's an ungodly amount of CPU and GPU spikes throughout the OS which make the "omg seconds" invisible in comparison

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