Maybe it is set to showing 24hrs instead of 12? Because that means the analog clock actually has 24 sections. I had that setting and thought it was broken, too. Check the settings. If that doesn't help you, use the forum search and maybe post in existing thread. In the future, please post such issues in a separate thread if there isn't one about your subject already.

Since the wiki (if that is what you mean by "the homepage"?) and this site TMO are maintained - and Maemo is developed - only by a handful of people (who do a great job btw), sometimes it can take a while before all the information is updated. The wiki is certainly not the most up-to-date source of information. All the latest and most important news are usually found here at TMO, but you always need to look carefully at the dates of whichever post, since there is also a lot of outdated info around. Installing virus/hacks/whatver over junk is very, very unlikely if it got pushed to your N900 from the repos.