On mer., 2011-02-02 at 11:44 -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Package: xfce4-panel > Version: 4.6.4-1 > > The clock panel item does not appear to notice time zone changes. > > I like having the time on my panel, using LCD mode to keep it small, 24 > hour time, displaying just the hours and minutes. I travel a lot, and > so change the system time zone setting relatively frequently. When I > use 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' to update the time zone from a shell, the > clock does not notice the time zone has changed, and there appears to be > no way from the gui to force it to rediscover the time zone. > > Manually killing and restarting the xfce4-panel process works, > suggesting the clock is only looking at the time zone during startup. I > would be satisfied with either a way to manually force the clock item to > rediscover the time zone from the gui, or a code change causing it to > notice such changes by itself on some reasonable interval. > > I see that this was reported and supposedly fixed in libxfcegui4 4.4.2, > but that predates my use of xfce4, see Debian bugs #429380 and #387050. >
Hey, I can't test on 4.6 right now but on 4.8 the clock plugin does notice the tz change (at refresh time, so usually after a second or a minute max depending on what is displayed). I'll check on 4.6 tomorrow and report back. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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