How Do I Use Pedestals?

[Strill]

I've got a pedestal with a watch of flowing time here, but no matter how often I right-click, I don't see any fire or purple sparkles. I've also tried redstone, redstone torches, and red alloy wire to no avail. When I place the redstone/red alloy wire around the pedestal the graphic won't even connect to the pedestal. It just goes straight past it.

Are pedestals not sensitive to redstone? Do you have to activate them some way other than right clicking?

[quarrydigger]

I read there is a bug, that makes pedestals not work. I don't know how the watch works really, but I believe there is a way to use it without the pedestal.