Dynamic date & time on slides

I've seen talk of being able to add a dynamic date and time readout to slides with Quartz Composer, but I haven't been able to find any more information about it. I've got no clue how to use QC, and really haven't had the time to devote to pulling things apart and working with it.
Has anyone seen any tutorials for this specific task that they could point me to? Or has anyone done this themselves and willing to give me some pointers, or at least a starting point?
Thanks,
Jeff.

Sorry...had to sleep. Here's what I did:
Starting with a blank project in Quartz Composer,
Find Tool - System Time, and drag it to the...heh. I've got no terminology. ...to the place where you put stuff together. :-P
Next, grab Tool - Date Formatter. Hook the 'Time' output and input together.
Then I used Generator - Image with string, hooking the string output from the date formatter into the string input.
Last, Renderer - Billboard. Hook 'Image' out put on Image with string to 'Image' input.
At that point, you ought to see a 'ticking' clock in a black rectangle in the viewer window.
Now, some parameters--show the Inspector, and click the Date Formatter. In the drop-down at the top of the Inspector, switch to Settings (or hit cmd-3). By switching 'Date formatting style' and 'Time formatting style' to 'None', you can specify your own string. (I'm using EEEE, MMMM dd h:mm:ss a, for instance.)
In the Settings for Image with String, you can specify font face and size, etc.
Finally, in the Input Parameters (not Settings) for Billboard, you can specify the font color.
The display will be on a black background in the viewer window, but should be transparent when you place the .qtz file on a slide.
Also, remember that the Quartz component will only be 'active' when the presentation's playing. On your slide, it will appear as a static image. (I've found, too, that if you group it with anything else, it 'kills' the component.)
Kyn, any other tips?
Hope that helps!
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