There is a work around in the upstream bug report. You can put the following into your gtkrc to change the text colour on the clock:
style "panel-clock"
{
fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"
}
Related is bug 88263.
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clock doesn't deal well with transparent panel
https://launchpad.net/bugs/10820
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