GNOME Panel

GNOME clock: No multiple time zones

Bug #247758 reported by makita
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GNOME Panel
New
Wishlist
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
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Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

If I run multiple instances of the gnome clock applet, I cannot set them to run different time zones. Both instances change timezones when either clock is changed.
For example, if I have two clock applets running, and I set one of them to EDT they will both change to EDT. If I set one of them to UTC they will both change to UTC. There is no way to set one clock to one time zone and one clock to another time zone.

I am using:
Ubuntu 8.04.1
gnome-panel 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu1

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Invalid
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makita (bowdrill+ubuntu) wrote :

Sorry, I did search but I didn't see anything for this bug. What is the bug number this is a duplicate of?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I don't find the number either know but I'm pretty sure it has been mentioned before in other bug, upstream might have decided to work on that and close the bug though

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makita (bowdrill+ubuntu) wrote :

  I am having the same problem in 8.10,
gnome-panel version 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2
gnome-applets version 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

  I looked around in launchpad and I could not find a duplicate of this bug, maybe this should be re-opened?. It seems like it should be a relatively easy fix.

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makita (bowdrill+ubuntu) wrote :

I marked this as new because I am still having this problem in intrepid. There was a typo in my previous post I am using version 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 of gnome-applets.

Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee: desktop-bugs → nobody
status: Invalid → New
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I forwarded this upstream since there was no bug filed about it.

Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote :

Pending discovery of any duplicate of this bug on LP, I'm adding this to Wishlist since it is a feature request. Thank you for reporting it.

Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Low → Wishlist
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makita (bowdrill+ubuntu) wrote :

OK, I reported it as a bug because this feature was in gutsy. Hardy broke it, and intrepid did not fix it. Maybe there is some package thing going on, but I could do this in gutsy gibbon.

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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote :

makito, it's possible that was a "feature" bug that existed before but was fixed. TBH, I don't know, but right now it's marked as "enhancement" upstream, so we'll leave it as Wishlist here for now.

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I reported that as an "enhancment" because I didn't know about it being a feature some time time ago. I am subscribed to the upstream bug, so when they change it to a bug I will forward the change to this bug in launchpad.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Unknown → New
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Russ Dill (russ-dill) wrote :

I used to have a full day of week, month day, 12hr, etc clock in my own time zone, and then a second clock with just 24hr format utc time. At some point, this broke. Its really hand on unix systems to have quick access to UTC and its really frustrating to have such a simple feature broken.

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Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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