Addison - Thank you for the interest in having the SVGClock work better.. Though the second hand can be disabled as mentioned above to reduce CPU load and improve performance, the seconds hand ticking makes the clock complete somehow..So it would be good to have it work better with the seconds hand enabled

As for Python, I am trying to learn atleast to fix my code and performance . Actually its not just python but GTK too, to enable buffering ( pixbuf or Pixmap) so that the stationary SVG components are not rendered every time loading the CPU.. The issue is time for the learning, out of the available free time.. Somebody pitching in and showing the direction would surely help a lot and is a good short-cut to that. Else I am committed to having this work better, sooner or later