Fixed it. Thank you so much to both.

Really? What was your first solution that you told me in that I never added your ClockViewerComonent component to the JFrame?

I modified my createPanel() method & it works, but the clock ends up at the very bottom of the frame when in reality, it should be just right under the 2 text fields. Any ideas on how to fix this?

panel = new JPanel();
	      JPanel inputPanel = new JPanel ();
	      panel.setLayout (new GridLayout (2, 1));
	      inputPanel.add(hourLabel);
	      inputPanel.add(hourField);
	      inputPanel.add(minuteLabel);
	      inputPanel.add(minuteField);
	      inputPanel.add(button);
	      panel.add (inputPanel);
	      panel.add(component);
	      this.getContentPane ().add(panel);

I don't really follow & don't really see where to add the ClockViewerComonent component.

I added that just right now & it still didn't work.