The time is only updated every two seconds

Bug #692992 reported by Benjamin Drung
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Indicator Date and Time
Fix Released
Low
Karl Lattimer
Unity Foundations
Fix Released
Low
Karl Lattimer
indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
Natty
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-datetime

The time is only updated every two seconds. This is not often enough if you enable show-seconds [1].

[1] gsettings set org.ayatana.indicator.datetime show-seconds true

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: indicator-datetime 0.1.90.is.0.0.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-10.24-generic 2.6.37-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 21 14:44:23 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-datetime

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :
Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in indicator-datetime:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in indicator-datetime:
importance: Undecided → Low
importance: Low → Medium
Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → Medium
Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → Low
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.04-beta-1
Changed in indicator-datetime:
importance: Medium → Low
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity-foundations:
assignee: nobody → Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.04-beta-1
status: New → Triaged
tags: added: bitesize
Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

With a recent update this bug is fixed.

Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
David Barth (dbarth) wrote :

the bug is fixed in the code

Changed in unity-foundations:
milestone: unity-3.8.0-beta → unity-3.6.6
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in indicator-datetime:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

it's still happening there in current natty

Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Fix Released → Triaged
Changed in indicator-datetime:
status: Fix Released → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh) wrote :

Certainly not fixed on my HP mini 110 netbook.

Tried a whole bunch of tests on this bug to see if I could reduce the time, the code says 1 second but is still taking 2, even with high priority timer and sub 1000ms timers. Last possibility is that it's caused by a delay in the code invoked after the timer.

Changed in unity-foundations:
status: Fix Released → In Progress
status: In Progress → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh) wrote :

Still unable to find a reason for this being slow seems the code between timer invoke and display is fast enough :/ Will have to debug with some more accurate time output to see what's going on.

David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity-foundations:
milestone: unity-3.6.6 → unity-3.6.8
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity-foundations:
milestone: unity-3.6.8 → unity-3.8.0-beta
Changed in indicator-datetime:
assignee: nobody → Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)
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Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh) wrote :

Current testing indicates that this bug is gone, can someone confirm?

Revision history for this message
Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh) wrote :

mini fix to reverse an incorrect timer of 865ms during testing, this still resulted in a 2 second tick time, with 865ms the timer would crunch up and either change too infrequently or too quickly, but now at 999ms it's pretty much spot on.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

seems to be fixed in current natty indeed, closing the bug, if someone still get it feel free to reopen the bug

Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in unity-foundations:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in indicator-datetime:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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