Noel, what happened with my clock is what exactly I want to happen. Did that with Tier 2 watching. With Tier 2 watching, Adobe "unexplicably" stopped doing that. What gradient Transparent to foreground is supposed to look like is exactly like this, according to plain English, according to this thread,, and according to the Engineers who program Photoshop. Looks like this!
Photoshop can suddenly perform this gradient once every few years, and the rest of the time, Photoshop is a total fail at this Transparent to foreground gradient.