Highlights wrong date as "today"

[Marc Deslauriers]

Binary package hint: indicator-datetime

We are Monday the 28th. Indicator-datetime is highlighting Sunday the 27th as the current day. See screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: indicator-datetime 0.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 28 08:17:38 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-datetime
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, is that a fresh session logged in from today?

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

No, I logged in yesterday. Should that make a difference?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it could be bug #726053 or similar, did you suspend your box during the night?

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Nope, I didn't suspend. Box was up all night.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

I'm able to confirm this -- setting the clock back to yesterday 23h and change, waiting for the day change, the calendar widget still shows the previous date.

[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

My test netbook has been running for nearly 4 days according to uptime and has the correct date, the system has sometimes been suspend/resumed during the night and sometimes left running.

This actually appears to be bug #649800 which is about the selected date not being returned to today when the menu closes, as you can click on the various calendar days to see appointments on those days.

I suspect that the user has clicked on that day and selected it, and the menu has never been reset to "today", this bug is currently made worse by two factors;

* The menu doesn't emit the closed signal mterry added on the toplevel/root of the menu so I can't use that signal from the indicator to reset to today.

 * There is an issue with dbusmenu which means the calendar property signals aren't being handled by the indicator at all, and therefore the calendar isn't being updated.

This could also be related to a theming issue, in that the theme isn't using a distinctive colour for marking "today" vs the selected day. I'm not sure if that's at all possible?

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Hmm...this could be bug 649800...I can't remember if I clicked on the date or not, but I may have.

[Jacopo Moronato (jmoronat)]

Could it be related to bug #721572 ?

[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

@Jacopo, no it's not bug #721572, that bug refers to the time on the clock, this bug refers to the selected date in the calendar widget.