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Clock applet updated time wrong when switching from summer time to normal time

Bug #69008 reported by Bengt Olsson
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

When I switched on the computer this morning the time was 7 hours off. instead of 09:30 it showed 02:30. Time zone Europe/Stockholm and synchronizing to servers
ntp.ubuntu.com
127.127.1.0
Unfortunately i checked the "date" cli command after I had manually adjusted the applet clock from the System > Administration > Time and Date dialog, but it shows the right time.

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Bengt Olsson (bengt-blafs) wrote :

Sorry, using Edgy with clock applet 2.16.1

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Your description is not clear though. What is your issue? The date being different to the applet from the command line? The synchronize option not working? Where did you click? What did you expect to happen? What happened?

Changed in gnome-applets:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Bengt Olsson (bengt-blafs) wrote :

OK, here is the chain of events

1. Woke up Sunday Oct. 29, the day at which summer time is switched to normal time in Europe (at 03:00). Computer has been switched off since the evening before.

2. Switch on computer at about 09:30 local time.

3. Expected clock applet to show time 09:30, instead it showed time 02:30 which is 7 hours behind the correct time.

That's all. Then I manually adjusted the time to correct time from the System > Administration > Time and Date dialog and now it is working fine. I don't know to what extent time was screwed up in the computer as a whole, but I suspect it was only the clock applet that showed wrong time.

As said before the computer clock has been synchronized to the two servers
ntp.ubuntu.com
127.127.1.0
since installation of Ubuntu 6.10 on Thursday October 26.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Not a gnome-applets bug, the applets don't set any time, not easy to figure what happened with those details? Do you use ntp or ntpdate? Are you sure the clock has not been modified by another OS or something?

Changed in gnome-applets:
assignee: desktop-bugs → nobody
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
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Bengt Olsson (bengt-blafs) wrote :

Using ntp. No other OS on the box.

It is not a big deal since time has worked fine ever since. I just wanted to report it since it seemed like Edgy did not handle summer to winter time transition right. However, if I'm the only one that have had trouble you might as well close this TR.

Or wait until its time for winter/summer time transition...

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Closing for now then, your bug lacks details about what happened (like system logs about boot time, if ntp adjusted the clock, etc). Switching from summer time to winter time and the other way around works fine for thousand of people, that's probably not a distribution bug, rather something weird that happened on your configuration

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