Also wait what?

My status-menu.plugins file was rather heavily modified, and I've never had issues with Advanced Clock Plugin in the entire time I've had it (since you first released it). Did other people with custom .plugins files get messed up before? I don't remember this happening, but even if it did, first-hand evidence of me never having problems says the problem isn't custom status-menu.plugins files themselves, but something specific.

That said, while you're at this way of replacing that .desktop file with this one, can't the future of Advanced Clock Plugin also involve replacing Clocks and Alarms (or whatever) with a better more versatile version? (That's what I thought you were doing at first.)