Comment 5 for bug 406438

Strongly disagree here too - one thing I've always found very frustrating about Windows is that it doesn't show you the date and that I need to hover over the time to get the tooltip. The purpose of this applet is quickly to give people key information that they are likely to look for regularly and the date is one of those. That's why good watches and good mobile phones have the date on them as well.

No compelling design case has been made in favour of the change - we are not struggling for panel real estate and as far as I'm aware, people haven't complained about being shown the date. I'd definitely consider this an unnecessary regression.