GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 511228
Clock applet does weird things
Last modified: 2008-04-02 20:27:22 UTC
Hard to come up with a summary for that. When I click on the clock applet it takes a long while to open (probably parsing the huge map file). Then it shows two locations I added, Wroclaw (Poland) and Boston. It only shows two analog clocks, names and weather icons and some mysterious "-6" next to Boston. At this point no tooltips work. After waiting for a longer while, current *local* date and time appears next to both the locations but the mysterious "-6" does not go away from Boston. Still no tooltips. I suspect the "-6" might be GMT offset but it's just a wild guess without checking the sources. Sometimes I manage to actually get the tooltips with current weather and time for both the locations but the conditions are not very clear.
Created attachment 103419 [details] A screenshot
The -6 is offset from your current location. I agree that having each location display *your* local time looks very weird.
Even more confusing as the local time only appears once the clock changes while the location list is visible (so you have to click the applet and wait up to 1 minute for it to display)
Most of this bug has been reported elsewhere already. But I was not yet sure what made the time actually show up, thanks patryk for telling me ;)
I think all the things you reported are fixed now. (in general, please avoid reporting multiple issues in one bug, it makes things a bit harder for us ;-))
At the time of reporting I was not sure these were different bugs. It looked like some weird stack corruption schema. But yes, everything seems fixed.