I too find it a little irksome but I'm easily irked.
The server clock thing is ridiculous as is many things with this forum software so I hope the Bakers aren't paying too much for it.
If it's just going to drift again anyway though I don't see much point in having the Bakers change it every couple weeks.
Now what REALLY gets my goat is that for some reason the Firefox spellchecker does not work here anymore. I know it's lazy to rely on those at ALL and it's not like I can't spell (or am not anal enough to google correct spellings) but typos happen and many times I am typing A LOT OF WORDS and QUICKLY to convey actual ideas. Having to pore over my posts to manually spellcheck is quite tedious so those red squigglies indicating I fudged something up are helpful.
As far as AUTO correct... that is absolute foolishness and should be abolished by law to a) prevent the further dumbing down of society (at least spellcheck can TEACH proper spelling... not ignore it completely) and b) avoid those awkward miscorrects that imply things like one wanting to do sexual things to one's own mother (or father) when all you wanted to say was "I want to come and raid your pantry" or "I need some socks".