Starcraft – Are there any shortcuts for a quick save

Edit: There is now an in game clock feature. It can be enabled by going to options, gameplay, and then enabling the in-game clock. The below is old information and no longer relevant.

There is currently no way to view the time elapsed in game. The lack of this has led to numerous threads requesting the feature on blizzard's forums. There appear to be no plans currently to add it, but I would not rule out the possibility of it being added eventually given all the requests blizzard is receiving.

Features for custom maps in Starcraft 2 are at the mercy of the developer. The editor is so immensely powerful that a map developer has many different ways at their disposal to provide saving features it really can be a bit overwhelming. Furthermore not every map developer offers such a feature, or even knows how to implement it.

As such the saving feature you're more familiar with (I'm assuming the campaign saving feature) is not the same when it comes to Custom Maps. It's best to contact the developer to request such a feature.