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What did you mean by "overwrite doesn't work"? Just did some testing, and I saw the overwrite blend mode when plugging into each of your examples.
Yes, that OR gate icon does indeed appear when you're cycling through the blend modes on an input affected by this bug with multiple date & time fat wires connected. But that doesn't mean it's doing what it's supposed to:
- Start a new scene / element.
- Stamp a Time gadget.
- Stamp a Node.
- Stamp another Node.
- Stamp a Switch.
- Stamp a NOT gate.
- Stamp a Sun & Sky gadget.
- Wire the UTC output of the Time gadget to the input of one Node.
- Wire the Local Time output of the Time gadget to the input of the other Node.
- Wire the output of the Switch to the input of the NOT gate.
- Wire the output of the NOT gate to the power of the first Node.
- Wire the output of the Switch to the power of the second Node.
- Wire the output of the first Node to the Time input of the Sun & Sky gadget.
- Wire the output of the second Node to the Time input of the Sun & Sky gadget.
- Set the blend mode of the Time input of the Sun & Sky gadget to overwrite.
- Turn the Switch on & off.
Observed: The sun remains close to nadir, offset by the value of the Sun & Sky gadget's sun pitch tweak.
Expected: The sun alternates between two positions 15 degrees apart, one being where it should be for the UTC time and the other being where it should be for the local time.
Instead of wiring both Nodes directly to the Sun & Sky, you could wire them through a third Node and try to use the overwrite blend mode on that, but you'd get the same result. And if you wire two date & times to a Calculator's input and set its blend mode to overwrite, you'll see in the Calculator's tweak menu that it's not even recognizing it as a date & time - it's seeing a plain number.
Of course, in the first experiment, exactly one of the gadgets providing a date and time to the Sun & Sky gadget was fully powered and the other was unpowered. For that case, there's an easier workaround than splitting it with a Splitter - for which the overwrite blend mode works for date & time - and putting it back together with a combiner. You can set the blend mode to blend instead, which does work as expected for date & time fat wires.