GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 153231
Applet needs to refresh after adjusting Time/Date.
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Steps to simulate the problem:- 1) Set the applet to show time in hours and minutes only (i.e. no seconds). 2) Adjust time using the context menu option. 3) Click Ok and close the Date/time Properties dialog. Result: The time is not refreshed in the applet immediately. The changed time is reflected after about one minute. This could be confusing to a end user. It could be experienced widely because the default clock display does not show seconds.
I guess this is the same bug as bug 133535.
The same problem exists with xclock. However, xclock provides an 'update' option at commandline to get around this problem. Thus, I propose there can be a UI option to set the update/refresh interval in the clock applet preferences dialog. Now, when the seconds are not being displayed, the user will have the choice to set the refresh interval. If seconds are being displayed, the option can be kept disabled. (extract from man page of xclock): -update seconds This option specifies the frequency in seconds at which xclock should update its display. If the clock is obscured and then exposed, it will be updated immediately. A value of 30 seconds or less will enable a second hand on an analog clock. The default is 60 seconds.
Yeah, the problem here is that when we're only displaying minutes we only update every minute, at the start of the minute. One possible fix is obvious - always update every second, but what a waste of resources for such a minor quirk. Kaushal, no, we're not going to make the update time configurable.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156796 ***