Show a clock somewhere.

[bdeshi]

We keep XY open all the time, a auto-updating clock somewhere sounds pretty useful, eh?

Maybe a section on status-, tool- or the menu-bar (in descending order of preference), or even overlayed on the right edge of the addressbar

[Pagat]

I wouldn't expect a clock in a file manager. Someone even may call it bloat... What about the clock in your taskbar? Is your taskbar hidden?

[bdeshi]

yes, my taskbar is hidden.

ed: and both moving the mouse all the way down or pressing Win+t are soooo unnecessary....

[Stef123]

moving the mouse all the way down or pressing Win+t are soooo unnecessary....

when under pressure I also need to keep track of time up front - in my field of vision. ALWAYS. Which is why an XY feature wouldn't do it for me. I rather carry a bunch of portable helpers, click-through clocks with transparency and alarm, sometimes even desktopcoral to reserve space at the edges ...

[zer0]

No, thank you. That thing in the bottom right corner of my screen does the job just fine. From a purely selfish POV, I would rather Don spent his cycles working on my wishes

[binocular222]

There're several ways:
1) Have a infinite looping script
setting "allowrecursion", 1;
status text, [color RRGGBB], [icon=ready|progress|alert|stop]
Or, if you don't want a looping xys, just use a looping Autohotkey script

2) Autohotkey script: Tooltip

[bdeshi]

Thanks for the great suggestion of freezing XY to show the time!

[mwb1100]

I think this is a good suggestion; maybe it could be added as a variable for the Title Bar template. "<date hh:nn>" can be used today, but it only updates when you're doing stuff in XY, so the clock can go 'stale'. But I agree with Pagat and zer0 that DonL probably has higher priorities.

There are third party programs that will add a clock to application title bars generally - perhaps one can be found that you like that is free or inexpensive?