Ephemerid provides the user with a simple and fast way of displaying the current date and time in a pop-up window. It is specially useful when the screen monitor has a low resolution and the menu bar is almost full: the system cannot show the clock to the left of the help menu icon (a feature introduced in recent versions of MacOS, and available through the control panel "Date & Time"). Actually, the idea of Ephemerid evolved from the annoyance at not being able to get the date and time without having to switch to the Finder, when running an application with a lot of menu items. As an bonus, Ephemerid is WorldScript-aware: it can display dates in "exotic" languages, provided they are supported by your system: Japanese, Chinese, etc.
