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Clock lags when changing timezone
Status:
RESOLVED: DUPLICATE
Product:
Xfce4-panel

Comments

Description Goran 2019-07-27 13:52:37 CEST
Action performed:
Change the timezone using dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Expected outcome:
The clock syncs to the new timezone immediately

Actual outcome:
The clock doesn't sync to the new timezone until the next minute (HH:00); curiously, if the format of the clock includes seconds (e.g. %H:%M:%S), of if the user hovers over the clock icon, then it's instantly synced, but this kind of behavior seems a bit inconsistent.
Comment 1 Theo Linkspfeifer editbugs 2019-07-27 14:15:22 CEST
This issue was already reported -> bug 9785.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9785 ***
Comment 2 Simon Steinbeiss editbugs 2019-07-28 22:35:17 CEST
While the two could be tackled by the same workaround (updating the panel clock every second no matter what the layout) in this case we can fix the bug properly as we can listen to timezone changes over dbus through timedated's Timezone property:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/timedated/
Comment 3 Simon Steinbeiss editbugs 2020-05-27 12:47:54 CEST
Hm the systemd approach will obviously only work for systemd-enabled systems, so no bsds. Let's stick to the resolution of closing as duplicate for now...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9785 ***

Bug #15750

Reported by:
Goran
Reported on: 2019-07-27
Last modified on: 2020-05-27

People

Assignee:
Xfce Bug Triage
CC List:
2 users

Version

Version:
4.13.6

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