Comment 19 for bug 706353

I figured out how to get the originally installed clock back in the tray, so wrote a brief user-guide for anyone else that has this problem.

1.) Remove clock from the tray, this will remove ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet(#) and its related entry in Gconf.

2.) copy/paste clock folder from /.gconf/apps/panel/applets/ in the root account (or newly created user account) to ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/

3.) Change owner of clock folder to current user (in terminal): sudo chown -R username:username /home/username/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/clock

4.) In Gconf: apps/panel/clock/ change "position" to 1446 and check-mark "panel_right_stick". Btw, if you want the clock in the top panel, config option "toplevel_id" should be: "top_panel", if you want it in the bottom tray change toplevel_id to: "panel_0"

5.) Don't worry about other settings, they can be changed from the clock applet once it's back in the tray.

6.) In Gconf: apps/panel/general change "applet_id_list" by double-clicking on that line, this will open a config box, click add, and type "clock" in the box, then click OK.
(I moved my "clock" listing up to just under systray, but this may not be necessary.) Click "OK"
Close Gconf, etc.., you're done!

The clock should now be back in the tray, and redshift will now work without elevated permissions and be easily locale customizable by changing location through the gnome clock applet.

Many Thanks to Miloš Komarčević for figuring out what the problem was.
Happy Holidays!