I want text.

[Joetoe]

Okay, so, I'm completely new to this and I wanted to know how I could get some text that could say for example,
"The date is xx/xx/xx." in print on the desktop. Please forgive me for using incorrect terminology, as I said, I am new.

Maybe something along the lines of the attached image.

[smurfier]

It should look something like this.

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[msTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%#H:&M

[msHour]
Measure=Time
Format=%#I

[msAP]
Measure=Time
Format=%p
Substitute="AM":"1","PM":"2"

[msAmPm]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(msAP=1)  ? 1 : ((msAP=2) && (msHour<18) ? 2 : 3)
Substitute="1":"Morning","2":"Afternoon","3":"Evening"

[msWeek]
Measure=Time
Format=%w
Substitute="0":"Sunday","1":"Monday","2":"Tuesday","3":"Wednesday","4":"Thursday","5":"Friday","6":"Saturday"

[msDay]
Measure=Time
Format=%d

[msDayPost]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(msDay=1) || (msDay=21) || (msDay=31) ? 1 : (msDay=3 ? 2 : 3)
Substitute="1":"st","2":"rd","3":"th"

[msYear]
Measure=Time
Format=%Y

[msMonth]
Measure=Time
Format=%m
Substitute="10":"October","11":"November","12":"December","1":"January","2":"February","3":"March","4":"April","5":"May","6":"June","7":"July","8":"August","9":"September"

[mtString]
Meter=String
MeasureName=msTime
MeasureName2=msAmPm
MeasureName3=msWeek
MeasureName4=msDay
MeasureName5=msDayPost
MeasureName6=msMonth
MeasureName7=msYear
Text="The time is %1 in the %2#CRLF#on %3, the %4%5 of %6.#CRLF#The year is %7, and everything is going to be alright."
StringAlign=Center
X=100
StringCase=Upper

[Joetoe]

What exactly do I do with that?

[smurfier]

Put it into a skin file....
I suggest you read everything Here.
If you're still clueless after reading that, then ask for more help.

[electricblue]

Ok I'm having a problem where it's saying Evening no matter what time of day it is. I'm really new to Rainmeter and I don't understand a lot of the perl scripting that's going on. Here's my modified code from your example...

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[Rainmeter] 
Update=1000

[msTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%I:%M

[msHour]
Measure=Time
Format=%#I

[msAP]
Measure=Time
Format=%p
Substitute="AM":"1","PM":"2"

[msAmPm]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(msAP=1)  ? 1 : ((msAP=2) && (msHour<18) ? 2 : 3)
Substitute="1":"morning","2":"afternoon","3":"evening"

[msAmPmAgain]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(msAP=1)  ? 1 : ((msAP=2) && (msHour<18) ? 2 : 3)
Substitute="1":"great day","2":"fine afternoon","3":"good night"

[msWeek]
Measure=Time
Format=%w
Substitute="0":"Sunday","1":"Monday","2":"Tuesday","3":"Wednesday","4":"Thursday","5":"Friday","6":"Saturday"

[msDay]
Measure=Time
Format=%d

[msDayPost]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(msDay=1) || (msDay=21) || (msDay=31) ? 1 : (msDay=3 ? 2 : 3)
Substitute="1":"st","2":"rd","3":"th"

[msYear]
Measure=Time
Format=%Y

[msMonth]
Measure=Time
Format=%m
Substitute="10":"October","11":"November","12":"December","01":"January","02":"February","03":"March","04":"April","05":"May","06":"June","07":"July","08":"August","09":"September"

[msRSS]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url="http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/livestats/most_read/rss.xml"
UpdateRate=1000
RegExp="(?siU)<title>(.+)</title>(.+)<item(.+)<title>(.+)</title>"
StringIndex=4
FinishAction=!RainmeterRedraw

[mtString]
Meter=String
MeasureName=msTime
MeasureName2=msAmPm
MeasureName3=msWeek
MeasureName4=msDay
MeasureName5=msDayPost
MeasureName6=msMonth
MeasureName7=msYear
MeasureName8=msAmPmAgain
MeasureName9=msRSS
FontFace="Helvetica"
FontSize=20
Text="Good %2, Mr. Coleman.#CRLF# The time is %1 on a %3, the %4%5 of %6, %7.#CRLF#The top news story at the moment is...#CRLF#%9#CRLF#Have a %8, sir."
StringAlign=Center
AntiAlias=1
X=500

msAP and msAMPM are where the problem is

If I had to guess I'm thinking Formula=(msAP=1) ? 1 : ((msAP=2) && (msHour<18) ? 2 : 3) means
"if msAP=1 then use 1, if msAP=2 and msHour is less than 18 then use 2, otherwise use 3."

for some reason it's skipping over 1 and 2 and going straight to 3 everytime

[smurfier]

I mades a couple mistakes. Going real fast is not a good thing for me.

The fixed original:

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[Rainmeter]
Author=Smurfier
Update=1000

[Metadata]
Name=
Config=
Description=
Instructions=
Version=
Tags=
License=Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0
Variant=
Preview=

[msTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%#I:%M

[msHour]
Measure=Time
Format=%#H

[msAP]
Measure=Time
Format=%p
Substitute="AM":"1","PM":"2"

[msAmPm]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(msAP=1)  ? 1 : ((msAP=2) && (msHour<18) ? 2 : 3)
Substitute="1":"Morning","2":"Afternoon","3":"Evening"

[msWeek]
Measure=Time
Format=%w
Substitute="0":"Sunday","1":"Monday","2":"Tuesday","3":"Wednesday","4":"Thursday","5":"Friday","6":"Saturday"

[msDay]
Measure=Time
Format=%d

[msDayPost]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(msDay=1) || (msDay=21) || (msDay=31) ? 1 : (msDay=3 ? 2 : 3)
Substitute="1":"st","2":"rd","3":"th"

[msYear]
Measure=Time
Format=%Y

[msMonth]
Measure=Time
Format=%#m
Substitute="10":"October","11":"November","12":"December","1":"January","2":"February","3":"March","4":"April","5":

"May","6":"June","7":"July","8":"August","9":"September"

[mtString]
Meter=String
MeasureName=msTime
MeasureName2=msAmPm
MeasureName3=msWeek
MeasureName4=msDay
MeasureName5=msDayPost
MeasureName6=msMonth
MeasureName7=msYear
Text="The time is %1 in the %2#CRLF#on %3, the %4%5 of %6.#CRLF#The year is %7, and everything is going to be 

alright."
StringAlign=Center
FontColor=255,255,255,255
X=200
StringCase=Upper

By the way, it's not perl script, but you did read it right.

[electricblue]

what did you change? I don't see any difference and it's still always going straight to evening

[smurfier]

That's strange. We'll just have to eliminate the msAP measure.

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[Rainmeter]
Author=Smurfier
Update=1000
BackgroundMode=2
SolidColor=0,0,0,1

[Metadata]
Name=
Config=
Description=
Instructions=
Version=
Tags=
License=Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0
Variant=
Preview=

[msTime]
Measure=Time
Format=%#I:%M

[msHour]
Measure=Time
Format=%#H

[msAmPm]
Measure=Calc
Formula=msHour<11 ? 1 : (msHour<18 ? 2 : 3)
Substitute="1":"Morning","2":"Afternoon","3":"Evening",".0":""

[msWeek]
Measure=Time
Format=%w
Substitute="0":"Sunday","1":"Monday","2":"Tuesday","3":"Wednesday","4":"Thursday","5":"Friday","6":"Saturday"

[msDay]
Measure=Time
Format=%#d

[msDayPost]
Measure=Calc
Formula=(msDay=1) || (msDay=21) || (msDay=31) ? 1 : (msDay=3 ? 2 : 3)
Substitute="1":"st","2":"rd","3":"th",".0":""

[msYear]
Measure=Time
Format=%Y

[msMonth]
Measure=Time
Format=%#m
Substitute="10":"October","11":"November","12":"December","1":"January","2":"February","3":"March","4":"April","5":"May","6":"June","7":"July","8":"August","9":"September"

[mtString]
Meter=String
MeasureName=msTime
MeasureName2=msAmPm
MeasureName3=msWeek
MeasureName4=msDay
MeasureName5=msDayPost
MeasureName6=msMonth
MeasureName7=msYear
Text="The time is %1 in the %2#CRLF#on %3, the %4%5 of %6.#CRLF#The year is %7, and everything is going to be alright."
StringAlign=Center
FontColor=255,255,255,255
X=200
StringCase=Upper

I had made a change to msTime and msHour. I got the hour codes mixed up. I also added an almost transparent background in order to make it easier to click on.

[Raikuga]

Where do I find the dock icons in the screenshot? Namely, the one for "Games"... I've been looking everrywhere for the set to no avail...