I personally love having the date on my panel, even with Weather info and way too many things in the system tray on my small eeepc screen. I think that we should certainly keep the date there, many people relish (as a comparison point against Windows having saved the small amount of effort that it would take to hover and check plus even if it is subjective users are much more likely to notice the things which get worse than those which get better. Besides there is no decent argument for having two panels if the space that this provides is not used.
I personally love having the date on my panel, even with Weather info and way too many things in the system tray on my small eeepc screen. I think that we should certainly keep the date there, many people relish (as a comparison point against Windows having saved the small amount of effort that it would take to hover and check plus even if it is subjective users are much more likely to notice the things which get worse than those which get better. Besides there is no decent argument for having two panels if the space that this provides is not used.