When you go to the main download page for sl, which is a very simple url, easy to remember, there will be links for the current main viewer, and generally some links for a test version or two.
The main page for downloading second life is secondlife.com/downloads. You might want to bookmark that page.
When you are logged in and you go to secondlife.com. you will see a dropdown list on the top right. That download page is in that dropdown list. So you never have to wonder where the main download page is at, just go to secondlife.com and use the dropdown list.
In this case, if you are using the main current viewer, you could try using the Release Candidate viewer, and vice versa.
You can find a page in the Second Life wiki that has a bunch of old versions of SL. Generally only that last few versions listed there will still work.
You can find this page using a search engine like Google or yahoo by searching for
"second life" wiki old versions
a very simple easy to remember search string - the name of the program, the word wiki, and what you are looking for - old versions. If you go to that page, you might want to bookmark or favorite that page.
The url for the wiki is easy to remember: wiki.secondlife.com . You might want to bookmark or favorite that url as well. If you are on the second life wiki page, you can use the wiki search to find old versions by using "old versions" as your search term.
The url for the wiki page with old versions is
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Old_versionsScroll down that page past the outline style list with the confusing numbers until you get to the nice clear logically arranged table with version numbers and links.
Just out of curiosity, what date and month and year and time does it show on your computer?
Did you try turning off your computer, router , modem, etc.?
There are other versions of Second Life viewers such as the Nicholaz viewer. You can find those using a search engine like Google by using
"second life" wiki alternate viewers
That will return a page in the wiki that has links to alternate viewers.
There's no guarantee that any of these various different viewers will work, but it's possible. I think the clock message may be produced by something like a network problem on your end, but giving a rather useless error message.
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