Sorry to be a grump... yes it looks lovely, but come on guys - a BBC clock 
telling you what time your own PC thinks it is really doesn't seem that 
helpful! I associate that with javascript toys on amateur sites.

For a start your O/S already shows a time display if you want it to.. and if 
that time is slightly out, then this clock is wrong too. Great idea to have it, 
but it's currently form over function.. Big Ben would still look lovely with a 
less accurate time but it's not really the idea :)

Whoever came up with that nice jerky movement surely has the know-how to grab 
the server time on loading and use an offset in Actionscript to keep track.

If it's true that on-screen clocks on BBC1/2 before the news were ditched 
because of satellite delay, then any clock provided on a BBC site that 
*doesn't* show you the "exact" time (to within a second, say) is a bit 
pointless and the policy looks inconsistent IMO.

drew

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