Indicator Date and Time

indicator-datetime does not update date after change

Bug #917236 reported by Dan Halbert on 2012-01-16

This bug affects 4 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Indicator Date and Time	Fix Released	Medium	Charles Kerr	Indicator Date and Time 12.10.1
OEM Priority Project	Fix Released	High	James M. Leddy
Precise	Fix Released	High	James M. Leddy
indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Charles Kerr

Bug Description

After setting the date manually via "sudo date", the short display of the date in indicator-datetime did not update. The calendar display DID update.

See the attached screenshot.

Today's date is Jan 16, 2012. To test an issue with another program, I set the date forward to July 12, 2012, using "sudo date 07121034".

This seems to be similar to bug #793450, but that bug was supposedly fixed, and this is indicator-datetime, 0.3.1-0ubuntu1 in oneiric.

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Related branches

lp:~charlesk/indicator-datetime/lp-917236

Merged into lp:indicator-datetime/12.10 at revision 185

jenkins (community): Approve (continuous-integration) on 2012-09-20

Lars Karlitski (community): Approve on 2012-09-20

lp:~ubuntu-desktop/indicator-datetime/ubuntu

Merged into lp:~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-datetime/ubuntu at revision 58

Indicator Applet Developers: Pending requested 2011-02-09

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Dan Halbert (dhalbert) wrote on 2012-01-16:

indicator-datetime.png Edit (19.2 KiB, image/png)

Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) on 2012-03-28

tags:

added: oneiric

Charles Kerr (charlesk) on 2012-03-29

Changed in indicator-datetime:
status:	New → Triaged
assignee:	nobody → Charles Kerr (charlesk)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-03-29:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Charles Kerr (charlesk) on 2012-03-29

Changed in indicator-datetime:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote on 2012-03-29:

Reproduced on Precise too. Affects only changing date from the command line.

Changed in indicator-datetime:
status:	Triaged → Confirmed
importance:	Medium → Low
Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in indicator-datetime:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Kent Lin (kent-jclin) on 2012-05-29

Changed in oem-priority:
importance:	Undecided → High

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James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) wrote on 2012-05-29:

From Kent:

We find that when first time we change the time, the time will be changed after 1 mins.
But when you set it again, the time will not be changed at all.

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Harmen H (harmenh) wrote on 2012-05-31:

Setting the date/time manually from settings -> time & date has the same impact. The displayed date above the calendar doesn't change at all. The calendar however does change to the correct date.

Tested with 12.04

James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) on 2012-06-13

Changed in oem-priority:
assignee:	nobody → David Barth (dbarth)

James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) on 2012-06-25

tags:

added: rls-q-incomming

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2012-06-26

tags:

added: rls-q-incoming
removed: rls-q-incomming

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James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) wrote on 2012-08-29:

Huh, this is actually screwy. Most of the labels are in control of datetime-service, but some of them (the calendar and the time that you have to click on) are part of indicator-datetime. I can fix the problem of 'date MMDDhhmm' pretty simply for the label that you have to click on, but it doesn't update the "Wednesday, 29 August 2012" bit directly under it because that's under datetime-service. I think we need to add a new signal.

No idea on how to fix setting the time manually, probably will need to call the same signal.

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James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) wrote on 2012-08-29:

Looks like this is shared by means of a DBUSMENU_CALENDAR_MENUITEM_TYPE in dbus-shared.h . So we need something similar for the date label so it can be updated from either.

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James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) wrote on 2012-09-05:

I have fixed it so the time updates on the label that you click on. Still todo is to fix the date label exactly underneath.

Changed in oem-priority:
assignee:	David Barth (dbarth) → James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2012-09-11:

If I understand this correct, James you are working to fix this bug, right?

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James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) wrote on 2012-09-11:

#10

Yes, but is turning out to be more compliacated than I initially thought.

James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) on 2012-09-11

Changed in oem-priority:
status:	New → Confirmed
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2012-09-12

tags:

added: pspriority

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2012-09-12

Changed in indicator-datetime:
importance:	Low → Medium
Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu):
importance:	Low → Medium

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2012-09-12

Changed in indicator-datetime:
assignee:	Charles Kerr (charlesk) → James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)
Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)

James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) on 2012-09-13

Changed in indicator-datetime:
assignee:	James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) → nobody
Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu):
assignee:	James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) → Charles Kerr (charlesk)

Charles Kerr (charlesk) on 2012-09-20

Changed in indicator-datetime:
assignee:	nobody → Charles Kerr (charlesk)
milestone:	none → 12.10.1

jenkins (martin-mrazik+qa) on 2012-09-20

Changed in indicator-datetime:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

Charles Kerr (charlesk) on 2012-09-20

Changed in indicator-datetime:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-09-20:

#11

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 12.10.1-0ubuntu1

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indicator-datetime (12.10.1-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Gracefully handle clock skew (LP: #917236)
    - Raise the version number of our EDS dependency (LP: #1024437)
    - Fix X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain entries in the .desktop file (LP: #1048834)
    - Remove unnecessary watching for geoclue address provider changes
  * build-dep on newer e-d-s stack
-- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:51:34 +0200