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#1 2010-11-30 14:26:18

vacant
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From: downstairs
Registered: 2004-11-05
Posts: 816

LXDE digital clock panel applet is one minute slow

I run openntpd so when I browse to greenwichmeantime and type date in a console, the two times agree.

However, I have a digital clock applet in my lxpanel and use the format

%l:%M %a %e %b

If I include ":%S" the digital clock looks fine but when I remove the seconds and close the settings windows, the digital clock "minutes" field does not update until the "next-but-one top of the minute" but it updates to exactly one minute behind. It then updates "on the minute" but remains one minute behind system time.

e.g.

11:10:05 digital clock including "%S" is showing correct minute (10)
11:10:10 I remove "%S" from clock settings window and close the window, lxpanel clock correctly shows 11:10
11:11:00 gmt website and "date" agree, lxpanel clock still showing 11:10
11:12:00 gmt website and "date agree, lxpanel updates to 11:11

I don't know when this behaviour started as I never have displayed seconds on my panel clock and I'm sure it used to synchronise with the FM radio timing "pips", or I'm going mad sad
lxpanel-0.5.6-1-x86_64 updated on my system 13th October

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#2 2010-12-01 19:50:18

vacant
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From: downstairs
Registered: 2004-11-05
Posts: 816

Re: LXDE digital clock panel applet is one minute slow

I submitted the same post to the lxpanel bug tracker on sourceforge today and suggested a line in the source code that could be changed.

4 hours later it was fixed. I downloaded lxpanel-git from aur to confirm.

Given that I set the priority down to 2 I'm really impressed.

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