How to Show 24 Hour Time on Lock Screen in Mac Sonoma

In this guide, we will show you the steps to show the 24-hour time on the lock screen of your Mac running Sonoma. There has been some confusion doing the rounds regarding the availability of this feature. While both sets of users are running the fourteenth iteration of the OS, only one of them is able to access the setting to implement date and time settings on their system whereas the other half doesn’t even have this functionality in the first place.

So why is there a discrepancy? Well, the ability to show the 24-hour time on the lock screen of a Mac running Sonoma is only available to those users who are on OS version 14.2 or higher. If you are on a lower OS build, then this feature will not be present there. But even if for some reason you don’t wish to do an upgrade, there still exists a nifty method to get this job done. So in this guide, we will be focusing on both these methods. Follow along.