It would be nice if the national LDL could get a clock somewhere. I know it would look funny if they put it where it was, viewers with intellistars would see two clocks, but if they could shorten the tabs and put it there? With the cities in alphabetical order, it's not too hard to know when the city you're looking for is coming.
Yes, if the national LDL were to have a clock, it would have to be on the tab instead of on the lower-left part of the screen. As you said, no one wants two clocks.
Then again, I don't believe the national feed without an LDL ever had a clock in it before, anyway, so the way things are now really aren't any different than they've ever been where the clock is concerned. The clcok was displayed nationally, as far as I know, to accomidate the Intellistar viewers for the brief period of time when the Intellistar didn't display a clock. As for viewers of the XL, 4000, and Jr., I think TWC is becoming less interested in supporting older systems. And I don't disagree with that decision. The 4000 is twenty years old this year, and, while it did its job very well at the time, TWC could hardly claim to be cutting-edge and up-to-date with technology if, for example, the majority of cable companies in the year 2010 happened to still be using this twenty-year-old technology. The XL is already over 10 years old. TWC is looking ahead to the HD STAR and furthering its HD programming, so attention has to be taken away from older systems.
