One of my favorite programs of all time, meaning I’ve run it on absolutely every Windows box I’ve ever had access to since ’98 came out (which is a lot of boxen), is TClock.

It’s a free little program that replaces your taskbar clock and, among other things, displays the day and date next to the time. You can enter an NTP server and it will automatically sync your system time with an atomic clock, which is, you’ve got to admit, way cool.

It also lets you skin your Start button and the Start menu banner, manage your open windows, play alarms or hourly chimes, do some basic Windows tasks (like shut down your system by double-clicking on it), and more.

But basically I’ve been using it for so long that I feel weird on a system that doesn’t have the date in the lower right-hand corner. I just can’t train myself to quit glancing there for the date.