Clock gets stuck on time zone change

[Alistair Cunningham]

Apologies if this is reported against the wrong package; feel free to reassign it.

When changing time zone in Ubuntu 13.10, the clock gets stuck on the old time.

Yesterday evening I travelled from Manaus to Rio de Janeiro, which is a two hour time zone change to the east. At 20:40 Manaus time, I clicked on the clock on the Gnome panel, selected "Date & Time settings...", and clicked on where Rio de Janeiro is on the world map. It automatically selected Sao Paulo, which I guess is the closest place it has data for. I then closed the Time & Date window. The clock should then have changed to 22:40 (as it would have in Ubuntu 13.04), but instead stayed stuck on 20:40. Right now (11:30 Rio time the following day), the clock in the Gnome panel still says "20:40". Running the date command in a terminal produces the correct time:

$ date
Tue Oct 22 11:30:42 BRST 2013

so it's definitely a problem with the Gnome clock applet rather than the system time.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-panel 1:3.6.2-0ubuntu15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 22 11:23:20 2013
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-03-01 (1330 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-12 (10 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Alistair Cunningham (acunningham)]

Is anything happening with this? This bug is really annoying for frequent travellers.

[Jodie Cunningham (jodie-cunningham)]

Workaround:
Click on clock
Click on "Date & Time Settings..."
Click on "Clock" tab.
Change one of the clock display settings
Change it back

[Alistair Cunningham (acunningham)]

That workaround does not work for me. It has no effect at all.

[Alistair Cunningham (acunningham)]

Correction: it works for some settings on the clock tab. It seems to work for "Seconds", but not for "Weekday" or "Date and month". Perhaps it's because the seconds setting changes the time part of the clock?