The UK website was updated with
Manual Errata that indicated that this 'feature' was taken out of the game. The US website is
run by morons and has not been updated in over a month, and what updates they did are
incomplete and broken.
For the clock press "O" to open your chronometer and check the time, hover over the little dial near the top of the face for the date. Or install skwasjer's wonderful
digital clock mod.