Indicator applet display the wrong date

[Aymeric]

When I put my computer in standby mode, and wake up it the next day, the indicator applet didn't take care that date have change.

Today we are Friday 10 May 2013, I took the picture (see attachment) 10 minutes ago.
Indicator display we are the 07 May, more strange, the calendar below have the good day.
I've switched my computer Tuesday in standby mode and wake up it today.

I could reproduce it each day, just have to standby and wake up next day.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: indicator-applet-complete 0.5.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-40.64-generic 3.2.40
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 10 11:45:37 2013
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: indicator-applet
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Aymeric (mulx)]

More related to indicator-datetime than indicator-applet.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dronus (paul-geisler)]

Well, this seems a small bug, but I've already made false decisions on the shown date. As it takes chance for it to appear (it does not always occur, and having the computer switched on at midnight doesn't (!) prevent it reliable) it seems only a small annoyance, but on the other hand: A simple date clock, not able to show the current date correctly is a very embarrassing glitch.

I wonder if there is systemic problem in Gnome or the indicator architecture or something else, if even a simple clock contribute long lists of bugs?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Agreed, this is a You-Had-One-Job-level bug. Or as <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance> puts it, "High: ... Renders essential features or functionality of the application or dependencies broken or ineffective".

This might be the same underlying bug as bug 1157914 for VMs.