Win11 Extra Clock ⏰

Restore the Windows 10 clock on Windows 11. Open the taskbar calendar and a small flyout shows a clock with seconds and the long date, using your system locale. Theme-aware, with nine preset positions and a custom drag-to-place mode.

Current version: 1.0.0

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Features ✨

✅ Seconds display and long date in the calendar flyout
✅ Lightweight tray icon with an update badge 🔴
✅ Tray menu entry when a new update is released: “Update available”
✅ Calendar flyout detection for smooth show/hide
✅ Can run independently of the calendar via Test mode
✅ Position presets (Top-Left/Center/Right, Center, Bottom-Left/Center/Right) and Custom offset
✅ Theme-aware icons and UI (Light/Dark)
✅ No telemetry, minimal footprint 🪶

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Screenshots 📸

Flyout — Dark	Flyout — Light

Tray & badge	About

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Download & Install 📦

1. Get the installer from the Releases page
   (e.g. Win11ExtraClock-x64-*version*-setup.exe).
2. Run the installer and follow the steps.
3. Optional: keep the icon always visible via
   Settings → Personalization → Taskbar → Other system tray icons → turn On for “Win11 Extra Clock”.

Requirements

• Windows 11 build 22000+ (21H2 or newer).
• x64 system.

⚠️ Code signing & SmartScreen ⚠️

The installer and executable are not code-signed yet. On first run, Windows SmartScreen may warn that the app is from an unknown publisher.

If that happens:

1. Click More info
2. Click Run anyway

We plan to sign future releases. Until then, you can verify the download by checking the attached SHA-256 checksum and by downloading only from this GitHub repository.

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Usage 🧭

Open the flyout (normal)

• Click the time/date area on the Windows taskbar (the built-in tray clock).
• The Windows calendar opens and Win11 Extra Clock appears alongside it (seconds + long date).
• Close it by clicking the time/date again or anywhere outside the flyout.

Test mode (no calendar needed)

• Open the tray menu → Show Test
• This shows the clock flyout without the Windows calendar, so you can position it anywhere you want and preview it.
• The Custom move... become active only when the position is set to Custom and the Show Test is active.
• Close it by uncheck it from tray menu.

Tray icon & updates

• Click the app’s tray icon to open the menu (About, Exit, Position…).
• When a new version is out, the tray icon shows a small red badge and the menu displays Update available (bold).
  Click it to open the latest release.

Position presets

• Tray menu → Position → choose Top-Left / Top-Right / Bottom-Left / Bottom-Right / etc., or Custom to fine-tune offsets.

Start with Windows (selected during setup)

• The option Start with Windows is already checked in the installer, the app launches automatically on sign-in.
  You can toggle this later from the Start-up folder or by reinstalling and changing the option.

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Updates 🔄

The app checks for updates on startup and then periodically (default every 2 hours).
It reads a plain-text version file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/floatweb/win11-extra-clock/main/version.txt

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Optimisations:

• Uses ETag / 304 to avoid unnecessary traffic
• Optional fallback to GitHub Releases API
• No personal data is sent, only a simple HTTP GET

A small log is written to: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Win11ExtraClock\update.log

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Translations 🌐

Language files live in languages/. Add a JSON file with your strings. Switching language applies at runtime.

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Privacy 🔐

• No telemetry.
• Network calls are only made to read the version text (and the GitHub releases endpoint if enabled).

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Build from source 🧰

Prereqs

• Windows 11
• Visual Studio 2022 (with “.NET Desktop Development”)
• .NET 8 SDK

Project versioning (.csproj)

<PropertyGroup>
  <Version>1.0.0</Version>
  <AssemblyVersion>1.0.0.0</AssemblyVersion>
  <FileVersion>1.0.0.0</FileVersion>
  <Company>Float Web</Company>
  <Product>Win11 Extra Clock</Product>
  <Authors>Float Web</Authors>
  <Copyright>© 2025 Float Web</Copyright>
  <ApplicationIcon>Assets\Win11ExtraClock_AppIcon.ico</ApplicationIcon>
  <SupportedOSPlatformVersion>10.0.22000.0</SupportedOSPlatformVersion>
</PropertyGroup>

Keep version.txt in the repo root in sync (e.g. 1.0.0).

Build steps:

1. Open the solution in Visual Studio → set Release | x64.
2. Build the solution.
3. The installer (e.g. Win11ExtraClock-x64-*version*.msi) is the recommended distribution.

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Project structure

Win11 Extra Clock/
├─ assets/                    # icons & images (tray, logo, about)
├─ languages/                 # translations
├─ Services/
│  ├─ UpdateService.cs        # version check (ETag, fallback)
│  ├─ CalendarDetector.cs     # calendar flyout detection
│  ├─ PreciseSecondTimer.cs   # second-precise timer
│  └─ AppState.cs             # shared state (UpdateAvailable, etc.)
├─ Tray/TrayIcon.cs           # NotifyIcon, menu, badge
├─ UI/
│  ├─ FlyoutWindow.xaml       # clock/date UI
│  └─ AboutWindow.xaml        # About page
├─ Win32/NativeMethods.cs
├─ App.xaml / App.xaml.cs
└─ README.md

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Roadmap 🗺️

• In-app guided update flow
• Extra date/time format tweaks
• CI for reproducible builds (GitHub Actions)
• More translations

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Contributing 🤝

Issues and PRs are welcome. Please keep changes focused (one improvement per PR) and include a short description and screenshots where it helps.

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License 📄

Released under the GNU GPLv3. See LICENSE.

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Support the project 💖

If Win11 Extra Clock saves you time or you simply enjoy using it, you can support ongoing development: