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Description
We switched to Daylight Savings time last night; when I started my computer this afternoon I noticed that the clock had switched to DST as well - but it would be nice if there was a small notification dropdown that reminded the user of the switch to/from DST and confirmed that the system time was still right.
That little distro from Redmond does this, and when I was still using Billware it was a useful reminder to switch the *rest* of the clocks in the house.
Attachments
 Bug #37836 : Clock should provide notification of time changes like daylight savings time
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tbrminsanity wrote on the 18 Mar 08 at 15:49
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It would be great if DST was dropped all together but I think that is outside the scope of Ubuntu.
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gijsterbeek wrote on the 18 Mar 08 at 20:50
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Why don't we abolish winter completely?
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oliver@schinagl.nl wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 00:01
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The new hardy heron shows (more) neat notification bubbles.
'warning your battery is crap'
'you just disconnected your powerline'
'battery running low'
so I would think that
'DST is now in use, change those clocks!'
be quite neat.
The technical reason why nobody implemented this is probably because of this:
On linux systems the time is set to UTC mostly, and even if it's set to local time it doesn't get influenced by DST changes. Since linux has always been about multi-user, so has the time settings. Therefor the RTC never changes in linux systems. When DST comes (and goes) the RTC (real time clock) just keeps ticking along. the system prints the date/time always according to the users locale, which already incorporates all the timezone stuff, and DST stuff.
So read RTC -> print correct time.
Bill never cared about multiple users, and figured he could just change the RTC to see his fit. Why use a proven concept, if you can use yer own lazy way. So in windows, the clock always shows your local time, and needs to be changed when you move to a different timezone etc (in Linux you only have to change your locale, and it'll print it properly right away, without changing the RTC). So what the clock applet in windows has to do, is check every month, every day, every hour whether it's DST. and if so, change the time. If it does that, it might as well annoy you with a big window.
I reckon to add a few lines at the startup routine to show a popup that DST has been in affect would be neat, but to have my clock constantly check whether DST is in affect, I dunno. I know it's microscopical speed influence, but why bother? an entry in all installed calander would be just as clean I suppose and more sensible :)
Funny note, if you ever actually read the notification windows gives you, it says 'windows has changed your clock due to the DST change', but linux doesn't need to change the clock ...
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Eldmannen wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 02:21
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oliver,
Thank you for your very informative reply.
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jespdj wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 13:19
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"That little distro from Redmond does this"
As far as I know, Windows XP notifies you, but Windows Vista does not - it automatically adjusts the time without notification.
@gijsterbeek: We're all working hard at this, and it's going quite well (global warming)...
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medigeek wrote on the 8 Apr 08 at 18:21
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A wonderful idea, I'd recommend to any dev ASAP! :)
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