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In article <mailman.1909.1191999022.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> wrote:

> I have  
> 
>   (setq display-time-format "%R %Y-%m-%d")
> 
> which gives me
> 
>       08:47 2007-10-10
> 
> in the mode line.  Please have a look at the documentation to the
> function:

What steps do you take to get the time to appear in  your modeline? I've 
messed with this and _never_ been able to get the time to appear in mine.
-- 
W. Oates