Getting the system time?
(Yes, I tried search. Maybe I'm not searching for the right things, but I couldn't find anything where these questions had come up.)

(By the way, is Search being extremely slow for anyone else? It takes about 2-3 minutes to get results for me.)

I just got my S-Vid to RCA adapter today, so I've got my TV hooked up as a second display for my laptop. I want to use AVS to display the current time, but gettime() only returns time since system startup, play time, and play length. Is there a parameter for gettime() or a function that will return the current system time?

Also, using Render/Text, is there a way to extract a certain portion of ID3 info? I've got winamp displaying Artist - Album - Track which makes the display really really long, and I'd like to break this up onto 3 lines for display on the AVS. Using $(title:n) doesn't really work because I can't retrieve an interior portion of the string, and I'd have to break it at static points.