Bug 581026

Summary:	clock-applet frequently displays time one second behind when using "Show seconds" option
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	David Ward <david.ward>
Component:	gnome-panel	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version:	5.7	CC:	pm-rhel
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Description David Ward 2010-04-09 19:48:50 UTC

Description of problem:
The time displaying in the GNOME taskbar via clock-applet is frequently one second behind, when the "Show seconds" option is checked in the Preferences dialog.

The clock will often go two seconds of real time without updating the display.  Then the clock display may immediately jump two seconds ahead; or the clock display may only advance one second (being one second behind), and then a few seconds later a display update will jump two seconds ahead.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Currently using gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5 with RHEL 5.5. However problem has existed since at least RHEL 5.3.

How reproducible:
Several times per minute.

Steps to Reproduce:
Log into GNOME.
Right-click the clock applet in the taskbar, and choose "Preferences".
Click "Show seconds" and click "Close".
Watch the close and observe the described behavior.

Comment 1 David Ward 2010-04-10 01:49:02 UTC

Actually this applies to gnome-panel rather than gnome-applets, sorry.

Found upstream gnome-panel bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585668

Comment 2 David Ward 2011-08-15 14:50:31 UTC

Upstream bug fixed in commit 20732053fbbb5b7a4b59c8f74a3a79dfca5a45cc to gnome-panel. Please apply this simple one-line fix to RHEL 5 and 6. Thank you.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2014-03-07 13:56:56 UTC

This bug/component is not included in scope for RHEL-5.11.0 which is the last RHEL5 minor release. This Bugzilla will soon be CLOSED as WONTFIX (at the end of RHEL5.11 development phase (Apr 22, 2014)). Please contact your account manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2014-06-03 12:12:31 UTC

Thank you for submitting this request for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. We've carefully evaluated the request, but are unable to include it in RHEL5 stream. If the issue is critical for your business, please provide additional business justification through the appropriate support channels (https://access.redhat.com/site/support).