Comment 16 for bug 406438

To the reporter : i've read your solution but what is the problem ?
i don't see any.
Besides i agree with Brett Alton : your assumption is wrong. In jaunty there is only a way to easily get the date by default : by reading it on the the panel. Tooltip in default configuration doesn't show the date but provides the user with some help. And reading the date by opening calendar is not instantaneous, it needs some times to read the table.
This is not serious. It seems that you want a result and then that you try to justify it.

Maybe you should look at problems 1st, before looking at non-problems.
You could work to find a way to simplify Nautilus preferences window for instance (there is so much settings in it that it looks like Firefox preferences window) (see for instance fix Bug 524195 – Media preferences no longer in obvious place) etc.