Comment 24 for bug 406438

Also don't like the change.

Seems particularly strange to advocate for leaving the *weather* there by default but not the date, given that it is a clock applet.

Having the date there without any keypresses or mouse movements makes it much more useful (many use cases here -- pretty much every time I need to know the date I'm doing something that I don't want to interrupt by opening up a new window or dragging my mouse somewhere).

Obviously any user commenting on this bug will be up to changing the setting, but it seems many people will either not notice (in which case it's netiher a win nor a loss) or will be disappointed when they see the date is gone and take to looking elsewhere for it (wall calendar, web page, what have you).