Yesterday I improved the signage on my clock:

I also added a 15-ohm, 5-watt-looking power resistor as a dummy load so the battery stays on and I don't have to press its button every time I want to check the time. My calculations say it's drawing 1/3 amp and dissipating 1 2/3 watts. It gets pretty warm. I could add a transistor and modify the code a little to pulse the load, but I calculated the battery will last over 12 hours like this, so it's not worth it, especially because:

I was at the electronics store yesterday and I found that they now have DS3231 breakout boards in stock! The DS3231 is a much superior RTC to the DS1307. It's temperature-compensated, making it far more accurate, and it can operate with supply voltage below 3 V. Even better, they fit directly onto a Raspberry Pi's header, they're about 1/6 the size (because they're not part of Seeed's Grove prototyping system, which my DS1307 is), and they're about half the price! I bought three, obviously.

This means that I can build a miniaturized version of the clock immediately, without having to get a softRTC running first! So I'm hoping to have a new clock to wear to school tomorrow. The current one's cable is rubbing my collarbone irritatingly, and people seem to be getting slightly bored with it (those who've seen it already, anyway). The next one will pin to my shirt, I think, and have a laser-cut/etched frame, and maybe a slightly larger display.