I recently had the need to use a widget to display the current date and time, granted there may be a better way to do this by now but I don’t know it.

In any case, I ran across this plugin that Chris Jean wrote back in 2008 Current Date & Time Widget . While this still works in WordPress 3.2.1, there are some deprecated functions still being used in it.

I decided to update the plugin to take advantage of the newer WP_Widget class.
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