Clock/Time

What would the benefit of that be, how do you see it being useful?

a) You have a clock somewhere on your system.
b) We have no need to know what time the server is running at, and the site uses javascript to get your system time.

I always assumed the site ran off it’s own time.
If it ran on a server time it would benefit people by being able to see what day it was and give us all a general time, so when inboxing or talking in the forums you could possibly use it. Or with updates and telling people the site will be down between this time and this time.

Hmm I see your point.

The server runs GMT time, so any maintenance will be scheduled with UK time. Many sites do it this way, and I think the way it’s been done here works well. I’m able to know how long ago a certain activity took place etc..

Yeah, I’m just saying it may be beneficial to add a clock. Even if its just a simplistic one.

It could even look like this

Here’s a temporary solution for you, mostly because I thought it was fun ;). Paste the following into the console tab of the dev-tools/firebug.
(function(){var $clockDisplay = $('<li>').addClass('right').attr('id', 'clockDisplay').insertBefore($('.right.icon:first'));$clockDisplay.css({'line-height': $clockDisplay.height() + 'px', 'padding': '0 2px'});setInterval(function(){$clockDisplay.text((new Date()).toGMTString())}, 1000);})()

Or if you have firefox with Greasemonkey(or Tampermonkey on chrome) here’s a userscript version; https://gist.github.com/verath/fb961d4565e923980335.

I cant see the time of the server being displayed becoming useful anytime soon. The previous version showed users online at the bottom of the page , I liked this , i can see why it was removed, but what about displaying the number of users online in a similar way, just an idea , don’t hate on me (I didn’t think it was worth a new thread ).